tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 21 14:35:57 1999
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Re: Darghtay (was Re: muvtay)
ghunchu'wI':
>The Klingon term is undoubtedly {Dargh tay} "Tea Ceremony". Both of these
>words were added to the dictionary in the 1992 edition, after TNG had been
>around for a while. Obviously the Tea Ceremony was being accommodated.
Voragh:
> A very good point. The one word (compound?) {taymey} are:
> chontay ritual hunt
> ruStay bonding ritual (the R'uustai)
> nentay Rite of Ascension
> Heghtay death ritual
Holtej:
>There's also {muvtay}, "initiation," from the TKD addendum.
Quvar muHwI':
>We're moving in a circle. {muvtay} was the word I started this thread
>with :-) I wanted to know its meaning.
Holtej:
>DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'! (and I thought I was being so clever by
>catching Voragh! That'll teach me!)
Note that {muvtay} fits into my scheme of one word compound = basic life
events. No doubt all Klingons everywhere go through an initiation
ceremony, if not several, in their lifetimes. Both the {ruStay} and
{nentay} are types of initiations in fact: one into a family, the other
into warriorhood.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons