[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yer

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, December 10, 2011
> 
> Klingon word: yer
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: domain, holdings, territory

As used in canon:

  nom yer mechmeH Quj 
  ["game for fast trading of domains/holdings"] MKE 

  cha'maH chorgh yer ghajwI' chaw' 'echletHommey 
  28 Title Deed cards. MKE


Cultural notes:

KGT 36:  Some houses are particularly wealthy, controlling vast lands by means of armed forces loyal to the particular house.

KGT 37-8:  the heads of the larger houses--that is, those with the greatest holdings and strongest forces-have seats on the Klingon High Council ({tlhIngan yejquv}), the body that rules the Empire. [...] Depending on a house's successes in any of these battles, its holdings--and therefore its overall influence in the society--may increase or decrease. [...] If the High Council determines an action to be dishonorable, not only may it remove the leader of a house from the Council itself, it may also seize the house's lands, forces, and other holdings.

Related nouns:

{yer ghajwI'}        [title/property owner]
{yer ghajwI' chaw'}  title deed MKE
{yergho}             city wall, the wall around a walled city

Related verbs:

{DoQ} claim (territory)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons