[Tlhingan-hol] "I have kept my word of honor"

[Steven Boozer]

I've just noticed a new idiom used in the {paq'batlh}:  {lay' 'ej batlh pab} "keep one's word of honor":

  jIlay'ta' 'ej batlh jIpabta' vaj choDanIS 
  I have kept my word of honor, And so should you, (PB 150-151, 186-187)

  qotarvaD lay'ta' 'ej batlh pab qeylIS 
  Kahless kept his word of honor to Kotar (PB 184-85)

Cf. also the verbs {'Ip} "vow, swear", {lay'} "promise" & {lay'Ha'} "break one's word".


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons