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

[jaSwa']

Maybe I'm missing something, but wouldn't {mIlHa'} mean something like "resume being honored?"

jaSwa'

Hochlogh bechjaj Hoch jaghpu'wI'

Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

>QeS, thanks for responding so quickly.
>
>Notice the new form {mIlHa'} "restore honor".
>
>I like the contrast of Type 7 (aspect) suffixes:  {yIntaHwI'pu'} the living ("those who continue to live") vs. {Heghpu'wI'pu'} the dead ("those who have died").
>
>--
>Voragh
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
>From: Rohan Fenwick - QeS 'utlh [mailto:qeslagh at hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:46 AM
>
>ghItlhpu' qurgh, jatlh:
>> Klingon word: HoQ
>> Part of speech: verb
>> Definition: be honored falsely, be falsely honorable
>
>jang Voragh, jatlh:
>> Related verbs:
>> HoQmoH honor falsely
>> quv be honored, be honorable
>> Qaq behave falsely honorably/in a falsely honorable manner
>> mIl be formerly honored
>> Have any of these been used in the {paq'batlh}?
>
>I haven't yet got the paq'batlh in a searchable format so I have to search by eye, but I couldn't find HoQ or Qaq, and I'll have to look again for quv. mIl appears only twice, both in a verse that shows a really nice usage:
>
>  yIntaHwI'pu' vImIlHa'moH jIH
>  Heghpu'wI'pu'
>  DamIlHa'moH SoH
>
>   "I will restore honor among the living,
>  You will restore honor
>  Among the dead."
>
>(pp. 146-147; paq'raD 16.22-24)
>
>QeS
>
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