[Tlhingan-hol] {Hotlh} and {ghoS}

[Steven Boozer]

De'vID jonpIn:
>> They also strike me as highly ambiguous, especially {Hotlh}:
>> anything I can scan, I can project on screen, and vice versa.

SuStel:
> I don't feel a strong link between scanning with a tricorder and
> projecting something on a screen. Yes, you can put your scanned data
> on a screen, but this doesn't seem to me a particularly strong reason 
> to assume the two words {Hotlh} are related. Maybe they are, but there's
> not enough evidence to assume they are.
> 
> Hoqra'lIj yIlo'; Dep yIHotlh
> Scan the creature with your tricorder.
> 
> nurI'chugh jaghla', yIHotlh
> If the enemy commander hails us, put him on screen.

{Hotlh}  project, put on (screen):
 
  yIHotlh 
  Put him on the screen! TKD

Cp. {cha'} "show, display (picture)":

  DoS cha' 
  Display target! (clipped) ST:MP

  wIy yIcha' 
  Show the tactical display! TKD

  wIy cha' 
  Display tactical! (clipped) TKD

  HaSta yIcha' 
  Show the visual display! TKD

  mIvDaq pogh cha' 
  display a glove on (one's) helmet 
  (idiom: a matter has been postponed or rescheduled) KGT

  tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq batlh cha'lu' 
  [It] has been emblazoned upon the hulls of countless Klingon
  starships. SP1

  motlh ray' luSamlaHmeH De' Qatlh cha' tlhIngan Duj jIH'a' 
  The main viewer on a Klingon ship is usually overlaid with
  a complex target acquisition grid. SP3

{Hotlh}  scan:

  nuHotlhpu''a' 
  Have they scanned us? TKD

  yIHotlh 
  Scan it! KGT

{HotlhwI'}  scanner 

  Never used in canon.

Cp. {noch} sensor & {Hoqra'} tricorder.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons