[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tey'be'

[mayql qunenoS]

jIH:
> tey'be'wI' SoHmo' bInayDI' jISaH.
> because you are my niece, when you marry I will be present.
SuStel:
> Although in English you can choose between "cousin" and "niece," in Klingon
> you're just saying {teybe'}, so you're not making that distinction.

yes you're right.. only now I realized this. I should have made some
reference to other relatives as well, in order to specify as to the
kind of {tey'be'} I was referring to.

jIH:
> 'aj tey'be' SoHmo' qaHoHbe' 'e' DaHar. tagha'Ha' 'aj vIHoH, ghIq qaHoH je
> don't believe that because you are the admiral's cousin I will not
> kill you. first I will kill the admiral, then I will kill you too.
SuStel :
> In {paq'batlh} we see {wa'DIch} being used as this kind of "first"

thank you for showing me this ; actually I had thought of using the
{wa'DIch} to express the <first>, however I wasn't sure that it could
be used in this way. luckily now I found out.

mayqel mIv mop je Hurgh qunnoq

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:47 AM, chransberry at gmail.com
<chransberry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Two birds with one stone (today's and yesterday's words):
>
> megh vut tey'be'wI' 'e' nID 'ach SIjwI' SamlaHbe'.
> My cousin tried to prepare lunch, but couldn't find a knife.
>
> An odd sentence perhaps...
>
> -QISta'
>
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> Subject: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tey'be'
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, March 06, 2016
>
> Klingon word: tey'be'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: female cousin (mother's sister's child or father's brother's
> child), niece (man's brother's daughter
> Source: HQ:v9n3p8
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