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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: vey'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Sep 25 11:09:17 2017
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Klingon word: vey'
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be comfortable, be plentiful
Source: qep'a' 24 [2017]
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(nIqolay Q, 9/01/2017): If you want to convey the idea of "more than some amount" in a positive way, or at least a value-neutral way, you could try the new word {vey'}. It was glossed as "be comfortable" at the {qep'a'}, in the sense of "a comfortable income", but the core idea is "be more than enough, be more than is just sufficient". (The notes say it's similar to {yap}, which suggests it refers to the thing that one has a comfortable amount of, rather than, e.g., the person who has the comfortable life.)
SEE ALSO:
yap be enough, be sufficient
puS be few
'Iq be too many, too much"
law' be many
Hutlh lack
chuv be left over
--Voragh
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