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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Dor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Jul 17 11:22:46 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:21:41 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, July 17, 2015
>
> Klingon word: Dor
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: end
> Source: HQ:v12n2p8
DorDI' jar mejpu'
At the end of the month, he/she left. (HQ 12.2:8)
tugh Dor qoSlIj. nom yIlop!
(MO's FaceBook text to Lieven, 3/29/12)
Dor
The End (PB chapter title; lit. "(It/Something) ends")
HQ 12.2: 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}. For example: {DorDI' jar mejpu'} "At the end of the month, he/she left." (Literally, this sentence means "When the month ended, he/she left.") ... 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. ... Another verb, {ghang}, is used to express the idea of a premature ending. ... Note that the voyage and the song cannot end themselves. Someone has to end them.
N.B. do not confuse with the verb {Dor} "escort"
SEE ALSO:
van end (an event) (v)
ghang end (an event) prematurely (v)
ta' accomplish, do (v)
qIl cancel (v)
tagh begin a process, initiate (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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