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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yap
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 18, 2013
>
> Klingon word: yap
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be enough, sufficient
Suvlu'taHvIS yapbe' HoS neH
Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight. TKW
yImev, yap!
Stop! It is enough! KGT
not yap wa' Hol
One language is never enough.
[promo for " A Klingon Christmas Carol" 2009? (Okrand?/KLI?)]
Cf. {mevyap} "Stop, [it is] enough!":
KGT 113: This expression, usually considered a single word, is used as a command meaning "Stop! Cease!" It comes from two Klingon verbs, {mev} ("stop, cease") and {yap} ("be enough, be sufficient"). No doubt in the past, the locution was longer, perhaps {yImev, yap!} ("Stop! It is enough!") ... {yap} ("be enough") is used as if an exclamation or a single-word sentence meaning "It is enough". The two words have been used in juxtaposition ({mev, yap}) for so long, they have come to be accepted as a single, though grammatically peculiar, word. If the order of the components were reversed ({yapmev}), the utterance would be meaningless.
{mevyap} on screen:
"(That's) Enough!" (TNG "Reunion", "The Chase")
"That is enough!" (TNG "Sins of the Father")
"Stop!" (TNG "Reunion")
"Shut up!" (DS9 "House of Quark")
"{mev yap}, Thopok!" (DS9 "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")
Similar words:
puS be few (v)
law' be many (v)
'Iq be too many, too much (v)
Hutlh lack (v)
chuv be left over (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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