tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat May 03 12:18:11 1997
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bIreqtal, was: family suffixes
- From: "SuSvaj" <[email protected]>
- Subject: bIreqtal, was: family suffixes
- Date: Sat, 3 May 1997 15:23:53 -0400
> |ghItlh voragh
> |>...Klingons usually mate for life, and the union -- once a couple is
"engaged"
> |> -- is solemnized with a sacred traditional oath, most often in
private...
> |
> |qaStaHvIS "'Quark' tuq" qaS je.
> |
> |qoror
>
> bIlugh. Strictly speaking, this was the bIreqtal ("brek'tal ritual") not
> the Oath of Union, which may have required a witness. In this case it was
> Tumek, Grilka's manservant, who presided.
>
> -- Voragh
HIja'. bong Heghbe'chugh' be' loDnal, loDnalDaj HoHwI' DoQlaH be'. 'ach
HoHwI' naymeH bIreqtal ta'nIS be'. tlhogh tay le' 'oH.
SuSvaj