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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 06, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   lut
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     story
 
Used in canon:

lut tlhaQ DaSov'a' 
Do you know any funny stories? PK

nom leng Hun nom lengqu' lut 
Stories travel faster than a *khrun* (PB 130-131)

Qo'noSDaq boqwI'mey nejmeH je leng qeylIS 'ej chaHvaD lut ja' 
Kahless also went out to search For allies across Kronos, And told them his tale. (PB)


Cultural notes:

KGT 73:  The stories acted out in Klingon operas may be adapted from a variety of sources: legends, history (particularly military history), famous works of literature. Occasionally, an opera presents an original plot. To follow the story, one has to prepare ahead of time.

st.klingon:  The verb for "write" in the sense of compose is {qon}, literally "record". This is used for songs and also for literary works (poems, plays, romance novels, and so on). As has been pointed out, it's as if the song or story is somehow out there and the 'writer' comes into contact with it, extracts it (to use Qov's nice phrase), and records it. ... There's another verb, {gher}, which doesn't have a straightforward equivalent in English, but which has sometimes been translated (not entirely satisfactorily) as "formulate" or "compile" or "pull together". The idea seems to be that of bringing thoughts together into some kind of reasonably coherent form so that they can be conveyed to someone else.
re ahead of time.

HQ 12.2 p.8f.:  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. The {bertlham} of a well-known work is often well-known itself, as is its beginning ({bI'reS}).

PUN: 
"most stories/songs told by bards were accompanied by a lute" (quljIb)

Related nouns:
wIch 		myth, legend
lurDech 	tradition
qun 		history

See also:

QIch lut 
narrator style (type of literary style) (PB xvii)

lut cherlu'  
prologue (PB, paq'yav)

lut'a'  
epic (N.B. used for "film, movie" by the KLI)

  tlhIHvaD paq chu' wImuch 'e' bochaw'mo' chequvmoH 'ej chebelmoH.
  lut'a'raj Dun laDlaHmeH tera'ngan, tera'Daq tlhIngan lut'a' paq
  wa'DIch wIchenmoHta', lut'a' 'oH paq'batlh'e'. 
  It is a great honor and pleasure that you have allowed us to
  present you with the first Terran edition of your glorious epic,
  the paq'batlh. (Vincent Van Gerven Oei's speech at qepHom wa'maHDIch)


And the following are frequently used on the Mailing List:

*jIHlut  		episode (TV), show, movie, film
*jIH'a' lut  	movie, film
*yInlut  		biography, curriculum vitae (C.V.)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons