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Re: Mauk-to'Vor

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Mauk-to'Vor
• Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:58:10 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Quvar wrote:

>Is there a canon klingon spelling for Mauk-to'Vor?  moqtovor?

Okrand provided a few words and expressions for Keith R.A. DeCandido's 
pro-novel _Diplomatic Implausibility_.  (I'm not sure if Okrand provided 
*all* of the Klingon, however.  Does anyone know?)

Here's the definition that appeared in the glossary:

    {ma' to'vor}  Mauk-to'Vor, a death ritual that allows one who has lost
    honor to die well and go to Sto-Vo-Kor by being honorably killed by a
    House-mate or someone equally close."

The fact that there's no /q/ leads me to suspect that this is, in fact, 
Okrand's own spelling for Mauk-to'Var.  As the language's creator he feels 
free to choose less-obvious spellings for words heard in the episodes.

>And Ghorkon? I think I've seen {gharqan} somewhere...

AFAIK there's no canon spelling, but *{ghorqan} is used most often for Gorkon.



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Voragh
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