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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 03, 2013
> 
> Klingon word: tun
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be soft

Used in canon:

  tun; reghuluS 'Iwghargh rur 
  soft as a Regulan bloodworm (KGT)

Cultural notes:

"Maltz first said ... that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows what they are. So when pushed - "If you have to call it something, what would you call it?" - he said {ngogh tun}."  [Lieven L. Litaer < Okrand, 12/07/2010]

When Captain K'Vada showed Picard to his quarters aboard his Bird-of-Prey, he slapped the hard bed - actually, more like a sleeping shelf - and sneered, "You will sleep Klingon-style. We do not cushion our bodies by putting down a pad." Nonplussed, Picard slapped the "bed" himself and replied, "Good. I like it that way." (TNG "Unification I")]

"Since Klingons are accommodating of foreigners, guest rooms in hotels do come equipped with a bed but that it's most often made of the same material as the floor." (CK)

Related words:

ghab tun 	meat from midsection of animal, no bones (regional) (n)
ngogh tun 	pillow (n.)

let 		be hard (v.)

 - letqu' QongDaq 
   The bed is very hard. CK 

 - let mInDu'Daj; Separmey rur 
   Her eyes are hard; they resemble separ
   [i.e. Her eyes are as hard as separ-stones.] KGT


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons