tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 12 07:12:25 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: yap (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, October 12, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: yap
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be enough, sufficient
Used in canon:
Suvlu'taHvIS yapbe' HoS neH
Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight. TKW
yImev, yap!
Stop! It is enough! KGT
Cf. {mevyap}:
This expression, usually considered a single word, is used as
a command meaning "Stop! Cease!" It comes from two Klingon verbs,
{mev} ("stop, cease") and {yap} ("be enough, be sufficient"). No
doubt in the past, the locution was longer, perhaps {yImev, yap!}
("Stop! It is enough!") ... {yap} ("be enough") is used as if an
exclamation or a single-word sentence meaning "It is enough".
The two words have been used in juxtaposition ({mev, yap}) for
so long, they have come to be accepted as a single, though
grammatically peculiar, word. If the order of the components were
reversed ({yapmev}), the utterance would be meaningless. (KGT 113)
{mevyap} used in the episodes, with captions:
"(That's) Enough!" (TNG "Reunion", "The Chase")
"That is enough!" (TNG "Sins of the Father")
"Stop!" (Reunion)
"Shut up!" (DS9 "House of Quark")
"{mevyap}, Thopok!" (DS9 "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Related verbs:
{'Iq} "be too many, too much"; {puS} "be few" & {law'} "be many".
Cf. also {Hutlh} "lack"; {chuv} "be left over"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons