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

[Gaerfindel]

On 6/5/2013 10:15 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 05, 2013
>>
>> Klingon word: nIch
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: ammunition
> AFAIK never used in canon.
>
> KGT 57:  Traditional clothing worn in battle, known as {HIp}, the word currently used to mean uniform, had both a protective function and a more utilitarian one, since it was from the clothing that weapons ({nuHmey}) or ammunition ({nIch}) could be hung.
>
> Related words:
>
> nuH 		weapon (n)
> ngat 		gunpowder (n)
>
> bach 		shoot (v)
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
I can just imagine, in days of yore, the <<nuH ra'wI' >> giving orders 
to his <<nuHbeqpu'>>--in clipped Klingon, of course:

<<ngat! nIch! Qeq! bach! bIQ! ngat! nIch! Qeq! bach! bIQ!>>

~quljIb