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

[Qov]

As I read this this morning, I said, "Hmm, I wonder what Marc thinks 
of wearing a tie?"

At 09:32 '?????' 6/19/2012, Steven Boozer wrote:
> > Klingon word:   tay
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition:     ceremony, rite, ritual
>
>Never used by itself in a sentence, but {tay} does appear in many compounds:
>
>chontay                 ritual hunt (n)
>Heghtay                 Death Ritual (n)
>muvtay          initiation (n)
>nentay          Rite of Ascension (n)
>qutluch tay     Kut'luch Ceremony (n)
>ruStay          R'uustai, bonding ritual (n)
>tayqeq                  civilization (n)
>
>Others on the List have suggested:
>
>*Darghtay       Tea Ceremony (?)
>*majQa' tay     Rite of MajQa (?)
>*naltay                 mating ritual (?)
>*ngaghtay       mating ritual (?)
>*tlhoghtay      wedding, marriage ceremony (?)
>
>Cultural notes:
>
>KGT 11:  While the conventional phrases used in some rituals are 
>uttered in modern Klingon (such as those used in the Rite of 
>Ascension, a ceremony symbolizing a young Klingon's attainment of a 
>certain spiritual level), those used in a great many others are in a 
>form of {no' Hol} (such as those associated with the {bIreqtal} 
>[brek'tal], the ceremony in which the killer of the leader of a 
>Klingon house marries the widow and thereby becomes the head of the 
>house himself). In these cases, the phrases must be studied and 
>memorized by the participants, then repeated back accurately. 
>Improvising or paraphrasing is entirely inappropriate. Depending on 
>when the phrases for the ritual originated, the words and 
>grammatical constructions may be somewhat like or very different 
>from those of modern Klingon.
>
>KGT 133:  Younger Klingons, while accepting their heritage and 
>observing the ancient rites, see some aspects of their elders' 
>behavior and beliefs as, if not obsolete, then just old-fashioned.
>
>Apparently the idiom is {tay lop} "observe/celebrate a ritual":
>
>   Heghtay lulop latlh tlhInganpu'. Heghtay luloptaHvIS chaH chaq 
> bey SeQ lujach
>   other Klingons may perform a ceremonial howl or yell as part of 
> the Klingon death ritual. S31
>
>   nentay loptaHvIS tlhIngan potlh tlhIngan 'oy'naQ'e'
>   The Klingon Painstik is an important part of a Klingon's Age of 
> Ascension ceremony. S32
>
>Related words:
>
>lop     celebration (n)
>lop             observe, celebrate (a ritual) (v)
>SeQ             be formal/ritualistic/ceremonial (v)
>SeQHa'          be informal (v)
>tay     be civilized (v)
>taymoH          civilize (v)
>
>
>--
>Voragh
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>
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