[Tlhingan-hol] "Happy Thanksgiving"?

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Canon seems to use burn to mean both "be burning" and "cause to be burning".

meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH.
"Only a fool fights in a burning house." (TKW)

to'waQ meQ vutwI'.
"The cook burns the tendon." (KGT)


However, the latter seems to be the rare exception. Perhaps even an error?

More examples from paq'batlh:

== paq'yav, Canto 4, Stanza 9: ==
Dogh ghaH 'e' Sov moratlh
'etlh DoQDI'
meQchu'pu' che'rupbogh**

Morath knows he has been a fool,
His promised kingdom will be ash
By the time he claims the sword.

[**I'll have to check if I've transcribed this correctly. If I have, the last sentence would appear to be one of the rare examples of a headless relative clause.]

== paq'yav, Canto 12, Stanzas 2 & 4 ==

jIbDaj lumeQmoH
jIbDajlumeQmoH
qul bIQtIq qulHommey

[...]

jIbDaj lumeQmoH
'ej bejtaHvIS
baS moj jIb

I don't have the English text handy, but basically, the sparks from the river of fire burn Kahless hair, and he watches it turn to metal.

== paq'raD, Canto 7, Stanza 5 ==

qeylIS Qaw' 'e' nIDmeH
yerDaj weH molor
'ej juH qachDaj meQmoH

Again, don't have the English text here, but:
In order to destroy Kahless, Molor had raided his lands and burnt his home.

== paq'raD, Canto 13, Stanza 10 ==

lujang meQboghnom 'oH
yeqchuqchu'taHghach
Daw' je joqwI'

They reply it is the meQboghnom*
The banner of unity
and revolution

I'm not sure who wrote the footnotes (I believe it was Floris Schönfeld), but it reads as follows:

* Kahless's meQboghnom, a name comprised from the roots "burn" (meQ), "to be born" (bogh) and "fast" (nom) expresses his revolutionary intentions.

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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] "Happy Thanksgiving"?

  Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' [lu]tIv tera'nganpu'
  Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals. CK
CK is canon, so {meQ} can mean "be burnt" in addition to the TDK definition "burn," which itself doesn't make usage clear: is /they burn meat/ {?Ha'DIbaH meQ} or {?Ha'DIbaH meQmoH}? The latter is more consistent with this example from CK.

How would one say in Klingon "I shall try some of your burned replicated bird meat." Is there any word for "replicate?" Perhaps {vaq}?
~'eD

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