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

[Christopher Kidder]

I've always liked this word, namely because we used it as part of the name
of what is celebrated in the "Klingon Christmas Carol" ... ram nI' tay.


On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Qov <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:

> 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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