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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, October 31, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   chovnatlh
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     specimen

AFAIK never used by Okrand, but is was used by the KLI for an issue of a magazine or journal; e.g.

  jarvam chovnatlh 
  current issue (i.e. of Qo'noS QonoS) KLI

  wen chovnatlh 
  past issues (i.e. of Qo'noS QonoS) KLI

Apparently derived from the verb {chov} "assess, evaluate, test":

  luchovmeH 'oy'naQmey lo' 
  [Warriors] who test him with painstiks. S9

  tlhIngan wo' yuQmey chovlu'chugh Qo'noS potlh law' Hoch potlh puS. 
  The principal planet of the Klingon Empire, Qo'noS... S27


Trek trivia:

In 2254 the Talosians kept a menagerie of thousands of specimens from various species collected from all over that part of the galaxy. (TOS "The Cage/The Menagerie, Pt. II)

"I've never encountered a specimen like you before." (Lt. Carolyn Palomis to Apollo, "Who Mourns for Adonais?")

Alpha 177 was the site of a geological survey mission; a landing party beamed down on a specimen gathering expedition. (TOS "The Enemy Within") 

The alien Tan Ru probe's mission was to gather and sterilize soil samples as a prelude to colonization. (TOS "The Changeling")


Related words:

chov 	assess, evaluate, test (v)
tob 		test conclusively (v)
Daj 		test inconclusively (v)
nuD 		examine (v)
waH 		try out, test, use experimentally (v)
buv 		classify (v)
poj 		analyze (v)
gher 	formulate, compile, put together (v)

ghantoH 	model, example, pattern (n) 
Segh 	race (type, sort, class), model (i.e. ship class) (n)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons