[Tlhingan-hol] Operations Command (was Re: Klingon Word of the Day: pav)

[Steven Boozer]

According to my notes, {yo' SeHyaH nIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH} "we are receiving a priority message from [Fleet] Operations Command" comes from Okrand's ST5 notes published in HolQeD 8.4:12-13.  If someone has that issue available, s/he might want to verify it for us.

{SeHyaH} [command center, operations, headquarters, etc.] hasn't appeared anywhere else AFAIK.

FYI {SeH} "control (v)" appears as an element in other words:

lolSeHcha		attitude-control thrusters (pl. n)

'eDSeHcha 	take-off/landing thrusters (pl. n.)

SeHlaw  		control panel, console (n)
  jol SeHlaw 			transporter control panel PK
  QeD SeHlaw 			science console KBoP
  Qum SeHlaw 			communications console KBoP

SeHwI'  		controller (n)
  leng Dotlh SeHwI' 	pat flight reaction control system KBoP
  muD ngeb SeHwI' pat 	atmospheric control system KBoP
  pIvchem SeHwI' 		warp field controller KBoP
  tal SeHwI' nguSDI' 	cannon control motor KBoP
  tel SeHwI' jo' 		wing control mechanism. KBoP


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Newton [mailto:philip.newton at gmail.com]
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se>
> wrote:
> > Star Trek V:
> >
> > Vixis: HoD, yo' SeHyaH nIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH                  (?)
> > (Captain, new data, hostages on Nimbus III.)              [sic]
> > {Captain, we are receiving a priority message from Operations
> Command.}
> > [Clearly, this is NOT the line she is saying!]}
> >
> > Source: http://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/2008/October/msg00037.html
> 
> Is this the source for the {yo'SeH yaHnIv} that's listed on
> http://www.kli.org/tlh/newwords.html ?
> 
> It's listed there as:
> 
>     (n) Operations Command [Apparently this is a proper noun.] [HolQeD
> v8n4p11]
> 
> Now I wonder whether the bit from ST5 should be transcribed as {HoD,
> yo'SeH yaHnIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH}; whether these are two separate
> phrases; or whether the phrase on newwords.html should become {yo'
> SeHyaH nIv}.
> 
> Does someone have HolQeD v8n4p11 handy to confirm how it's spelled
> there?
> 
> {yo'SeH yaHnIv} always looked odd to me by how Klingon words are
> formed; {yo' SeHyaH nIv} makes a lot more sense to me, being based on
> {yo'} "fleet", {SeHyaH}, and {nIv} "be superior".
> 
> {SeHyaH} is not immediately transparent, but seems to be related to
> {SeH} "control, check" (cf. the compound words {lolSeHcha}
> "attitude-control thrusters" and {SeHlaw} "control panel") and {yaH}
> "duty station, station" (cf. the compound word {ropyaH} "sickbay,
> infirmary, hospital" from {rop} "disease").
> 
> {yo' SeH yaH nIv} would also work, if {SeH} were a noun: superior
> fleet control station, or something like that.
> 
> Has {SeHyaH} been used anywhere else? (If only to confirm the spelling
> as one word.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Philip