tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 07 12:21:10 2003

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: Klingon WOTD: Qav (v)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qav (v)
• Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 10:35:24 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, April 6, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   Qav
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be final, last

As used in canon:

   <<'eb Qav>> jatlhpu'.
   He said, "Last call!" CK

   veH Qav 'oH logh'e'
   space--the final frontier. DS99

   On the other extreme, when {-DIch} is attached to {Hoch} ("all"),
   the resulting word, {HochDIch} ("allth") is used as an alternate for
   {Qav} ("be final, last") to refer to the final one of a series whose
   members either were counted or could have been counted, as in {pIpyuS
   pach HochDIch DaSoppu'} ("You've eaten the last pipius claw"). The
   word also may be used to describe the final step of a process. Speaking
   of the Rite of Ascension, one might say {'oy'naQ Dachu'Ha'DI' mIw
   HochDIch Data'} ("When you turn the painstik off, you accomplish the
   last step"). (KGT 177)

Cf. also {veb} "be next" and {nung} "precede".


-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

• References:
  • Klingon WOTD: Qav (v)
    • From: [email protected]

• Prev by Date: Re: Klingon WOTD: veb (v)
• Next by Date: Re: ??
• Prev by thread: Klingon WOTD: Qav (v)
• Next by thread: Klingon WOTD: veb (v)
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level