[Tlhingan-hol] Opposite of 'o'megh

[Steven Boozer]

Qov:
> Would you consider bI'reS to be the opposite of 'o'megh or does
> 'o'megh pertain only to narrative works?

... and pieces of music (esp. songs, i.e. music with narration):

HQ 12.2:8-9:  Generally, one expresses the end of a stretch of time by using a verb rather than a noun. That is, one says when the month ends rather than at the end of the month. The verb for this kind of end is {Dor}. ... When an event over which one has some control ends (one can't cause a month to end), a different verb is used: {van}. This would apply to such things as voyages, battles, plays, operas, stories, and songs. Here, the event (the voyage, the song) doesn't end; the participant in the event or the perpetrator of the event ends it. ... Note that the voyage and the song cannot end themselves. Someone has to end them. ... 
   There is a difference between the end of the performance of a song or opera or play, indicated by making use of the verbs {van} and {ghang}, and the ending, or final portion, of a song or opera or play itself. For an opera, play, story, speech, and so on, the final portion is its {bertlham}. This word usually refers to the last aria or other musical portion in an opera, last speech in a play, last sentence or so of a story or an address ... For a song - but only for a song - the final portion is its {'o'megh}. Parallel to {bertlham}, {'o'megh} is the final phrase or so of the song, one that brings the song to a definite conclusion. 
   All songs have endings ({'o'meghmey}), some more elaborate or stirring than others. (Maltz noted that there are Federation songs with {'o'meghmey} he has never heard, and he finds this disconcerting. He said that performers of these songs just sort of fade away before the song has ended properly. He referred to the ending of such a song as its {'o'meghqoq} "so-called ending".


> A battle has an 'o'megh. Does it have a bI'reS?

A battle SONG may have an {'o'megh} or {bertlham}, but not a battle per se:

HQ 12.2:8:  For an opera, play, story, speech, and so on, the final portion is its {bertlham}. This word usually refers to the last aria or other musical portion in an opera, last speech in a play, last sentence or so of a story or an address. The {bertlham} of a well-known work is often well-known itself, as is its beginning ({bI'reS}).

But you can use the ending verbs {van}, etc. with battles: 

HQ 12.2:8:  When an event over which one has some control ends (one can't cause a month to end), a different verb is used: {van}. This would apply to such things as voyages, battles, plays, operas, stories, and songs.

Apparently {bI'reS} can also be used with a {poH{ "period of time" according to Okrand's "Message to Kronos":

  poH tuj bI'reS nungbogh wa' jaj qeylIS DIS chorghvatlh
  loSmaH jav qaStaHvIS. [sic] 
  In the days that follow the summer solstice in the Year
  of Kahless 846. ('U'-MTK)

In the paq'batlh, {bI'reS} seems to have been used as a time stamp:

  bI'reS qeylIS vaq molor 
  First, Molor taunts Kahless (PB 140-141)


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Voragh
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