tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 22 11:29:20 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: wey (n)
>Klingon word: wey
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: company, military unit
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 50. A ship's full complement of personnel, crew plus officers, is
>called a {wey}, perhaps best translated as "company."
KGT continues:
"The general word for officer (in addition to the specific term for various
ranks) is {yaS}. An individual crew member is a {beq}. ({QaS} [troops]
applies to nonofficers whether or not assigned to a ship.)" (KGT 50)
"a doctor is always part of a ship's crew..." (KGT 151)]
As used in canon:
wey jolpat: wa' (jav ghotpu')
Personnel Transporter - 1 (6 Man) KBoP
Note also the collective noun {beq} "crew, (ship's) company, a force" which
appears in
"{pu'beq} ('phaser crew', the crew members responsible for the operation
of the weapons)." (KGT 56)
Hubbeq
defense force
tlhIngan Hubbeq
The Klingon Defense Force
beq may' ta vIlajpu'
I have accepted the crew's record of battle. KGT
How this differs from {wey} is unclear. Could {beq} refer to the enlisted
crew only; if so, how is this different from {QaS}? Or is {beq} everyone
on board a ship other than the captain (which would explain the KGT example)?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons