[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Doq 'ej wovbe'

[Gaerfindel]

ghItlhpu' David Trimboli:
> The original post says
>
>    Klingon word: Doq 'ej wovbe'
>    Part of speech: verb
>    Definition: be brown
>
> What you've got here says that {Doq 'ej wovbe'} is a word, which it's 
> not, and that its a verb, which it also is not. The English 
> translation is a verbal phrase, but who would look up a Klingon word 
> according to its English part of speech (especially a "be something" 
> verb)?
>
> If this entry appeared in an English-to-Klingon dictionary, it would 
> appear thus:
>
>    brown, be brown
>    Doq 'ej wovbe' (phrase)
>
> If it appeared in a Klingon-to-English dictionary, it would appear thus:
>
>    Doq 'ej wovbe' (phrase)
>    be brown
>
jIghItlh quljIb:

I applaud this.  However I still maintain that <<Doq 'ej Hurgh>> is a 
better rendering of "be brown."  I might use <<Doq 'ej wovbe'>>, but to 
describe things that are "light brown."  (Umber vs. sienna.)