tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 10 11:26:32 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: reghuluS (n)
> > reH HIvje'lIjDaq 'Iwghargh Datu'jaj!
> > May you always find a bloodworm in your glass! PK
QeS lagh:
>Is this a toast, or an insult?
It's a toast.
>(I just realised that I don't think we have a Klingon term for "toast".
I've seen *{HIq mu'tlhegh} used on the List once or twice.
>Perhaps {quvmoHmeH SoQ}
"address for the purpose of honoring"
Consider *{SoQHom}. Toasts are much briefer and less important than a full
{SoQ} "speech, lecture, address". Also, a toast doesn't give you {quv}
"(personal) honor" - your actions do that! - but rather {naD}
"commendation" or praise/approval: *{naDmeH SoQHom}. Another option might
be {van} "salute" - particularly if there's a typical toasting action or
gesture involved, like raising or tipping your {HIvje'} to the person
you're toasting: *{vanmeH SoQHom}.
None of these necessarily imply drinking, BTW, and could also mean an
encomium or any other type of speech in honor of something.
>or {tlhutlhlu'taHvIS jatlhlu'bogh quvmoHmeH SoQ},
"address for the purpose of honoring which is spoken while drinking"
Too wordy. This works better as a definition than a translation.
>but they're not as good as I'd like.)
I suggest a different approach: *{HIvje' mu'[mey]} modeled on {HIvje' bom}
"drinking song":
... the most frequently heard type of song is the {HIvje' bom}, the
drinking song. The word {HIvje'} really refers to a drinking glass
of any kind (a goblet, tumbler, wineglass, mug), so a {HIvje' bom}
is literally a "drinking glass song", perhaps so named because the
glass is alternately filled and emptied (that is, the beverage is
consumed) as singing continues. (KGT 78)
This use of {mu'} appears in {bom mu'}/{bom mu'mey} "lyric, lyrics" and
{tlhach mu'mey} "argot, jargon").
One might say:
matlh vInaDmeH HIvje' mu'mey vIjatlh vIneH.
I wish to make a toast in honor of Maltz.
matlhvaD HIvje' mu' wIjatlh... Ha'!
Let's toast Maltz! Let's give a toast to Maltz!
on the model of {SoQ Dajatlh} "you deliver an address, you make a speech":
qama'pu'vaD SoQ Dajatlh
you make a speech to the prisoners (st.k 6/97)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons