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

[Steven Boozer]

From: mayql qunenoS :
> noH wItaHHa'pu'pa', qaStaHvIS loS vatlh DIS poH reghobtaHvIS ; reSangta'
>  ngugh wIneHchugh vaj wIta'bejta'.
> before we ended the war, we were fighting you for four centuries ; if we
>  wanted to obliterate you then, we would have definitely accomplished it.

  noH wIvanpu'pa', qaStaHvIS loS vatlh DIS poH reghob(taH)

Drop the second {-vIS}.  In fact, I don't think you need {-taH} either since you've already said it lasted for four centuries ("while four centuries were occurring").  Here are some verbs for ending things you may not be aware of:
 
Dor  		end (v) 

(HQ 12.2:8):  Generally, one expresses the end of a stretch of time by using a verb rather than a noun. That is, one says "when the month ends" rather than "at the end of the month". The verb for this kind of end is {Dor}. 

  DorDI' jar mejpu' 
  At the end of the month, he/she left. (HQ 12.2:8)
   (Literally, "When the month ended, he/she left.")

  tugh Dor qoSlIj.  nom yIlop! 
  (MO's FaceBook text to Lieven, 3/29/12)

van  		end (an event) (v) 

(HQ 12.2:8-9):  When an event over which one has some control ends (one can't cause a month to end), a different verb is used: {van}. This would apply to such things as voyages, battles, plays, operas, stories, and songs. Here, the event (the voyage, the song) doesn't end; the participant in the event or the perpetrator of the event ends it. [...] Maltz said he wasn't sure whether {van} "end" and {van} "salute" were really the same word, but he found it interesting that Klingons end things by saluting them. [...] Note that the voyage and the song cannot end themselves. Someone has to end them. [...]
  There is a difference between the end of the performance of a song or opera or play, indicated by making use of the verbs {van} and {ghang}, and the ending, or final portion, of a song or opera or play itself. For an opera, play, story, speech, and so on, the final portion is its {bertlham}. This word usually refers to the last aria or other musical portion in an opera, last speech in a play, last sentence or so of a story or an address [...] For a song-but only for a song-the final portion is its {'o'megh}. Parallel to {bertlham}, {'o'megh} is the final phrase or so of the song, one that brings the song to a definite conclusion. All songs have endings ({'o'meghmey}), some more elaborate or stirring than others.

  leng [lu]vanDI' SuvwI'pu' 'IQ chaH 
  At the end of the voyage, the warriors are sad.
  ("When the warriors end the voyage, they are sad").  (HQ 12.2; sic! {lu-} omitted)

  bom [lu]vanDI' SuvwI'pu' tlhutlh chaH 
  At the end of the song, the warriors drink.
  ("When the warriors end the song, they drink") (HQ 12.2; sic! {lu-} omitted)

ghang  	end (an event) prematurely (v)

(HQ 12.2:8:  Another verb, {ghang}, is used to express the idea of a premature ending. If, using the same examples, the voyage is cut short or the song is interrupted before the final part is sung, one would say:
  {leng [lu]ghangDI' SuvwI'pu' 'IQ chaH} [sic! {lu-} omitted]
    "When the warriors end the voyage prematurely, they are sad." [sic! {lu-} omitted]
  bom [lu]ghangDI' SuvwI'pu' tlhutlh chaH} [sic!]
    "When the warriors end the song prematurely, they drink." 
Note that the voyage and the song cannot end themselves. Someone has to end them.

  DIvI' rojmab qep ghanglu' 'e' nIDlu', 'ach taH qep. 
  Despite efforts to halt them, peace talks with Federation continue. MKE


SEE ALSO:
qIl 		cancel (v)
ta' 		accomplish, do (v)
tagh 		begin a process, initiate, {start?) (v)



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