[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ngat

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 19, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   ngat
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     gunpowder
> Source: TKD

KGT 90:  if [the meat] is fresh, the "cook" may {pID} it, which involves coating it with herbed granulated cartilage (not necessarily from the same animal) mixed with some kind of {tIr} (grain) and doing very little else. The name of the granulated cartilage is {ngat}, which has also come to mean gunpowder.

Trek trivia:

In 2267 Klingon agent Krell taught the village people on Neural to make gunpowder for flintlocks. (TOS "A Private Little War")

In his battle with the Gorn captain on an unnamed planetoid in Metron space, Kirk constructed a primitive cannon by mixing naturally occurring potassium nitrate, sulfur and coal into gunpowder. (TOS "Arena")

Related words:

jor 		explode (v)
jorwI' 	explosive (n)


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