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Re: Klingon WOTD: tay (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tay (verb)
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:24:13 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, March 3, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   tay
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be civilized

Never used in canon:

Related verbs:

{lop} "observe, celebrate (a ritual)"; {SeQ} "be formal, ritualistic, 
ceremonial"; {Hach} "be developed (e.g. a civilization)"; {'Itlh} "be 
advanced, highly developed" (antonym {lutlh} "be primitive")

>Homonyms:
>     tay (noun) - ceremony, rite, ritual

Specific {taymey} include:  {chontay} ritual hunt, {Heghtay} Death Ritual, 
{muvtay} initiation, {nentay} Rite of Ascension, {qutluch tay} Kut'luch 
Ceremony, {ruStay} R'uustai ([familial] bonding ritual).  *{Darghtay} "Tea 
Ceremony" has often been suggested but never confirmed.

Related nouns:

   {taymoH} "civilize" & {tayqeq} "civilization"

"Apparently while our definition of maturity is cities ('CIVilization') 
theirs is ritual ({nentay}, {Heghtay}, {muvtay})." (Qov)

An alternate etymology is that the idea of civilization is related to 
{tay'} "be together, be united" (suggesting the pun:  family, cultural, 
societal "ties"?)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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