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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 18, 2013
> 
> Klingon word:   yap
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     be enough, sufficient

Suvlu'taHvIS yapbe' HoS neH 
Brute strength is not the most important asset in a fight. TKW

yImev, yap! 
Stop! It is enough! KGT

not yap wa' Hol 
One language is never enough.
[promo for " A Klingon Christmas Carol" 2009? (Okrand?/KLI?)]


Cf. {mevyap} "Stop, [it is] enough!":

KGT 113:  This expression, usually considered a single word, is used as a command meaning "Stop! Cease!" It comes from two Klingon verbs, {mev} ("stop, cease") and {yap} ("be enough, be sufficient"). No doubt in the past, the locution was longer, perhaps {yImev, yap!} ("Stop! It is enough!") ... {yap} ("be enough") is used as if an exclamation or a single-word sentence meaning "It is enough". The two words have been used in juxtaposition ({mev, yap}) for so long, they have come to be accepted as a single, though grammatically peculiar, word. If the order of the components were reversed ({yapmev}), the utterance would be meaningless.

{mevyap} on screen:

"(That's) Enough!" (TNG "Reunion", "The Chase")
"That is enough!" (TNG "Sins of the Father")
"Stop!" (TNG "Reunion") 
"Shut up!" (DS9 "House of Quark") 
"{mev yap}, Thopok!" (DS9 "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")


Similar words:

puS 		be few (v)
law' 	be many (v)
'Iq 		be too many, too much (v)

Hutlh 	lack (v)
chuv 	be left over (v)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons