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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 18, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   choH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     alter, change

As used in canon:

DaH Heraj yIchoH 
Alter your course now. (ST5 notes)

HIvHe yIchoHmoH 
Alter the attack course! ST5 

ghopDu' choHpu' Qe' 
The restaurant has altered hands. KGT

Language notes:

KGT 106f.:  By the same token, literally translating a sentence such as "The restaurant changed hands" into Klingon, presumably as {ghopDu' choHpu' Qe'} ("The restaurant has altered hands") or perhaps {ghopDu' tampu' Qe'} ("The restaurant has exchanged hands"), does not tell the Klingon that the restaurant is now under new ownership, which is what the Federation Standard phrase really means.

Related words:

tam substitute
Dub improve
rach strengthen
lIS adjust

Note the homophonous noun {choH} "change":

choH lISbogh Hap'e': cha'pujqut 
Reaction Moderating Element - Crystalline Dilithium. KBoP


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons