tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Nov 10 07:10:46 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qav (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, November 10, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: Qav
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be final, last
Used in canon:
<<'eb Qav>> jatlhpu'.
He said, "Last call!" CK
veH Qav 'oH logh'e'
space--the final frontier DS99
Explained in canon:
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 a possibly antonym {nung} "precede".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons