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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qoS

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 13, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: qoS
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: birthday
> Source: TKD

  tugh Dor qoSlIj. nom yIlop!
  (MO's untranslated FaceBook text to Lieven, 3/29/2012)

We don't know how to wish someone "Happy birthday!" - or even if Klingons celebrate birthdays - though most of us use some variant of *{qoSlIj DatIvjaj}, which was supported by a recent post on holiday greetings:

  [Maltz] said he has been asked before about "Merry Christmas" and
  "Happy New Year". He thought they were silly things to say (and, of
  course, there are no traditional Klingon ways to say these things),
  but he said that if you have to say "Happy New Year", you could say
  {DIS chu' yItIv} or {DIS chu' DatIvjaj} or {DIS chu' botIvjaj} or the
  like. For "Merry Christmas", he wasn't so sure. He said that perhaps
  you could use the name of the holiday (which would be {QISmaS}) and
  say {QISmaS yItIv} or {QISmaS DatIvjaj} and so on. He thought that
  people who know about Christmas would understand that.
   [Lieven, 12/12/2013]

In what turned out to be an alternate reality, Riker remarks that Worf seems extremely tense, considering he just returned from a vacation at the *bat'leth* tournament on Forcas III. Worf replies that today was his birthday. They reach Worf's quarters, but Worf is hesitant to enter and cautiously looks around. Riker asks what's wrong and Worf replies that he's afraid someone might have set up a surprise party for him. Unfortunately for him, they did. Back in reality, Troi presents him with a gift and says that Riker wanted to throw him a surprise party but she talked him out of it, for which Worf is grateful. Troi says that she knows Klingons like to be alone on their birthday, "You probably want to meditate or hit yourself with a painstik, or something." (TNG "Parallels")

In view of Worf's attitude, {SIQ} "endure, bear" might be a better choice and there's precedent: 

  'oy' DaSIQjaj
   May you endure the pain! PK (during the {nentay})

  yIn nI' yISIQ 'ej yIchep 
   Live long and prosper! RT 


Related vocabulary:

yatlh 		be pregnant (v)
bogh 			be born (v)
Sep 			breed (v)

lop 			celebrate (v)
tIv 			enjoy (v)
SIQ 			endure, bear (v)
bech 			suffer (v)
chergh 		tolerate (v)

lop 			celebration (n)
lopno' 		party, celebration (n)
yupma' 		festival (n)
'uQ'a' 		banquet, feast (n)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons





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