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Re: Klingon WOTD: laj (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: laj (v)
• Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 09:29:56 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, August 12, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   laj
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     accept

As used in canon:

   to'baj 'uS lughoDlu'bogh tIlaj
   Accept these stuffed tobbaj legs! PK

   beq may' ta vIlajpu'
   I have accepted the crew's record of battle.

   ghopDu'wIjDaq yInmeyraj vIlaj
   I accept your lives into my hands. KGT

A used by Paramount:

   jIlajneS!
   I'm honored to accept! (TNG "A Matter of Honor")

   jIlajneS.  ghIj qet jaghmeyjaj.
   I accept. May your enemies run with fear." (TNG "Sins of the Father")

[N.B. This is the traditional acceptance upon being asked to serve as 
someone's {cha'DIch}.]

Note the homophonous noun {laj} "acceptance".

Cf. also {Hev} "receive" and {tlhap} "take".

Antonyms include {lajQo'} "reject", {nge'} "take away", {yaH} "be taken 
away".


-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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