New words qepHom 2021
qepHom 2021 was the 20th meeting of the
qepHom Saarbrücken in Germany. Due to the pandemic restrictions, it was held online on
Discord. About 50 attendees were registered, of which usually about 25-30 were present online. The con package of the meeting was delayed due to delivery problems of its contents, so the list of new words arrived with it in February 2022.
Motto of the year
The motto of the year was a quote from the Klingon
translation of
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland:
naDev mamaw' Hoch "We are all crazy here."
List of new words
word |
type |
translation |
topic |
bertlham 'echlet |
n. |
back cover (of book) |
bI'reS 'echlet |
n. |
front cover (of book) |
Deryat |
n. |
program, agenda, schedule |
Doj tlhum |
n. |
bundle |
Haq |
v. |
tinker (slang) |
Ho' SIryoD |
n. |
dental braces |
jeqpel |
n. |
push-up |
sports |
la'yIgh |
n. |
spice |
food vocabulary |
ma'egh |
n. |
premiere |
ngeq |
v. |
store, hoard, cache |
ngolpel |
n. |
sit-up |
sports |
qa'mel |
n. |
camel (loanword) |
animals |
qa'nabIS |
n. |
cannabis (loanword) |
qol |
n. |
collection of segments that are joined together, collocation |
qongmeS |
n. |
sibling |
FamilyTerms |
qu'vIgh |
n. |
member of an august body [like the High Council] |
reqwer |
n. |
shrimp-like animal |
animals |
re'lIng |
n. |
instinct, talent, facility, aptitude |
tallIt |
n. |
cobalt |
chemistry |
tav neH |
v. |
tinker (slang) |
tlhep |
v. |
be dangling; also: be straight (hair) |
tlhum |
v. |
be constrained, bound |
ve'Ha' |
v. |
travel aimlessly; idiomatic: be wavy (hair) |
wa'ngoQ |
n. |
manganese |
chemistry |
wIlHay |
n. |
hinge / spine (of book) |
yItQet |
n. |
petroleum, crude oil |
'ImtIy |
n. |
cameloid animal without bump |
animals |
'InDIyene'palIS |
n. |
Indianapolis |
city names |
'urgh neH |
v. |
tinker (slang) |
Question and Answer session with Marc Okrand
During the online event,
Marc Okrand visted the meeting and answered several questions, but did not reveal any new words.
Cartoons
Okrand said that the word
qol in
mIllogh qol ("animation, cartoon") is a noun, but he did not remember which it was. It was later explained in the new words list. See ➞
qol
Front and back
In the context of
Alice in Wonderland,
Maltz had told us you can use the words
logh'ob ("chest") and
Sa'Hut ("butt") to refer to the front and back of a car.
During the
qepHom 2021 Q&A session, he explained this a bit more.
First, he made clear this applies only to cars, motorcycles and also space ships and similar things, but not the the front/back of everything, e.g. not for a computer screen, or a bottle etc.
Regarding space ships, somebody objected that we do have words for "fore" and "aft". Here he agreed that there is some kind of overlap, but still a slight difference: roughly said, the "aft" and "fore" of the ship is more a 3-dimensional space, where people can meet and where things can be located
("cargo bay is in the aft of the ship"), and when you use the word
Sa'Hut to refer to the ship's back, it's the 2-dimensional surface at the end. Think of the license plate, which is not in the trunk of the car, it's on the back of the car.
Miscellaneous
- A fortune-teller at a carnival would not describe themselves as a qutwI', because that would be to describe their own predictions as fraudulent, but other people would use it.
- There are definitely many Klingon words for different types of alcohol, but he doesn't know what they are.
- There are things he would have done differently if he'd have known the language would take off. For example, he wouldn't have made the suffixes -lu' and -laH mutually exclusive.
- The correct word to refer to a scar that results from surgery, is mIvwa'. It is defined as "scar (from wound)", and the wound in this case is an intentional wound. The word roptoj "scar (from disease)" is not appropriate here.
- The word chuQun defined as "nobility" refers to people, not a character trait. So you do not say "I admire John's nobility", but you can say "I know the nobility of this city".
- The word reD can be used to refer to the (left or right) side of a body, but it is not a body part.
qepHom booklet
These are the pages 9-19 with new words from the booklet as published at the
qepHom. Please note that these may include minor typos which were corrected in the above word lists. Several pages included information regarding the organisation of the
qepHom and an excerpt from the Klingon
Alice in Wonderland, but no new information. There are few prints that can be ordered at the website of the
Deutsches Klingonisch-Institut on
www.klingonisch.de

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