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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh javmaH chorgh:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Apr 25 09:19:50 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
<tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:19:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20120424135714.04469f40@flyingstart.ca>
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>>> chob'a'Daq ghutar luqIm nuv law'. lagh Qup luDech cha'maH
>>> SuvwI'pu'. jatlhlI' ghutar. tonSaw', quv je poj. rurchuq
>>> 'ej rurbe'chuq. jatlhDI' latlhpu' ghoHbe'. ghaqbej. quv
>>> luqeltaHvIS may'morgh lurur.
ghunchu'wI':
>>I don't understand the use of {may'morgh} here. Doesn't it mean
>>basically the gear (uniform, armor, weapons, etc.) someone would wear
>>when going to battle?
Qov:
> Ah, didn't know that. I thought that was covered by {may'luch} and
> that {may'morgh} was more like a battle formation, warriors arrayed
> for battle: serious, ready to protect one another and act to advance
> together in response to opportunities. Do we have canon, or are we
> just attributing different ideas to an unknown word?
Qov is right. {may'luch} "battle gear, panoply, complete set of armor and weapons":
KGT 57: A warrior's full set of armor, including weapons and clothing, is his {may'luch} (literally, "battle gear"). Traditional clothing worn in battle, known as {HIp}, the word currently used to mean "uniform", had both a protective function and a more utilitarian one, since it was from the clothing that weapons ({nuHmey}) or ammunition ({nIch}) could be hung.
nuHmeyDaj may'luchDaj nIv je yIr qeylIS
Kahless gathered his weapons and his finest suit of armor. (PB 181)
{may'morgh} "battle array" has never been used AFAIK. (Does it appear in the paq'batlh?) If you Google it you'll see it refers to a battle formation, i.e. the disposition and arrangement of troops on the battlefield {che'ron}. Think of those maps of battles you see in books about Caesar's Gallic wars, the Napoleonic wars or even WWI trench warfare. Can anyone think of a Trek reference?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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