tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 05 07:30:36 2008
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Re: Klingon WOTD: nalqaD (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, May 5, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: nalqaD
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: mate challenge
Never used in canon.
Okrand's KCD audio for {nalqaD} tells us that {nal} is not used as a word
on its own, although it is also found in {be'nal} "wife" and {loDnal}
"husband". Technically, it is a bound morpheme, like English "(o)logy".
*{nal} ("mate, spouse"??) also appears in {'IrneHnal} & {tennuSnal} "uncles
by marriage", {'e'mamnal} & {me'nal} "aunts by marriage" and {'e'nal} "one
who married into the family" (i.e. an "in-law").
Cultural notes:
KGT 69: Though any perceived attack on one's honor may prompt one to issue
a challenge, in one traditional form of duel, the goal is specifically for
a man to "win the favor of a women" ({vuv be' 'e' baj} [literally, "earn
that a woman respect him"]) by competing with another man."
Cf. also KGT pp. 67ff., "Duels and Challenges".
Related verbs:
{Hay'} "duel"; {qaD} "challenge"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons