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

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 14, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: taymoH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: civilize

KGT 11:  "While the conventional phrases used in some rituals are uttered in modern Klingon (such as those used in the Rite of Ascension, a ceremony symbolizing a young Klingon's attainment of a certain spiritual level), those used in a great many others are in a form of {no' Hol} (such as those associated with the {bIreqtal} [*brek'tal*], the ceremony in which the killer of the leader of a Klingon house marries the widow and thereby becomes the head of the house himself). In these cases, the phrases must be studied and memorized by the participants, then repeated back accurately. Improvising or paraphrasing is entirely inappropriate. Depending on when the phrases for the ritual originated, the words and grammatical constructions may be somewhat like or very different from those of modern Klingon.

KGT 133:  Younger Klingons, while accepting their heritage and observing the ancient rites, see some aspects of their elders' behavior and beliefs as, if not obsolete, then just old-fashioned. 

CK:  Klingons have adopted the way most civilized planets in the galaxy tell time.

PUN:
family, cultural, societal "ties"?

Related words:

tay  		be civilized (v)

tay  		ceremony, rite, ritual (n)
  - tayvam tIQ wIlopchoHjaj 
    Let us commence this ancient rite. PB

chontay  		ritual hunt (n)
Heghtay  		death ritual (n)
muvtay  		initiation, induction ceremony, initiation rite (n)
nentay  		Rite of Ascension (n)
qutluch tay  	Kut'luch Ceremony (n)
ruStay  		bonding ritual (the *R'uustai*) (n)
tayqeq  		civilization (n)

tay'  		be together, be united (v)

lop 			observe, celebrate (a ritual) (v)

SeQ 			be formal, be ritualistic, be ceremonial (v)
SeQHa'  		be informal (v)
  - Heghtay lulop latlh tlhInganpu'. Heghtay luloptaHvIS chaH
      chaq bey SeQ lujach
    other Klingons may perform a ceremonial howl or yell as
       part of the Klingon death ritual. S31


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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