[Tlhingan-hol] KLCP 1 vocab practice...

[Steven Boozer]

yan       wield, use or manipulate a sword KGT (v)

(KGT 61):  There is also the verb {yan}, which means “wield or manipulate (a sword)”. A swordfighter, then, would be a {yanwI'}, literally “a sword wielder”); the word for the specific type of sword may be, but need not be, included. It is thus proper to say {betleH yanwI'} (bat'leth wielder) or {betleH yan} (He/she wields a bat'leth).

(KGT 79):  in addition to saying {betleH yan} (He/she wields a bat'leth), one could say {betleH raQ} (He/she controls a bat'leth).

N.B. for wielding axes and clubs use {Qach}.

yan       sword (n)

  (KGT 60f):  The word {'etlh} is used for sword in general, but it really means blade of any kind... Another word normally translated sword, {yan, is more specific, referring to swords (that is, weapons with long blades) only.

     chaHvaD nIb yan wIjwI' jan je
     They don't know how to distinguish a sword from
     a plough! (PB)

pun:
[Okrand] canonized the word {yan} from *Yan-Isleth* - an elite Klingon division charged with protecting the Klingon chancellor whom they guard at all times; i.e. it's his personal security force. (DS9 "Apocalypse Rising") - in Klingon Monopoly:

  Qang QanmeH yan 'ISletlh Damuv 'e' wIvlu'.
    You are chosen to serve on the Yan-Isleth and protect
    the chancellor. MKE

By coincidence, *yahn* means "edge of a sword" in Cantonese (pace lay'tel SIvten).


From: chransberry at gmail.com [mailto:chransberry at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2016 12:55 PM


Voragh, thanks for your suggestion to use {yan}; I didn't know that word before. :-D

-QISta'


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QISta':
>> jIHDaq tomat naHmey non jaD Hoch QoywI'mey!
>> All the hearers threw rotten tomatoes at me!
>>
>> vaj Hoch vIHoHta'meH 'etlhwIj vIlo'.
>> So I killed everybody with my sword.

Try the verb {yan} "wield, use or manipulate a sword". E.g.
    vaj jIyantaHvIS Hoch vIHoHta'

In KGT it was even used in a vegetable-related example (more or less):

  naH jajmeywIj betleH vIyanbe'
  In my vegetable days, I did not wield a bat'leth. KGT

--
Voragh
tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a'
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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