[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Qav

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Klingon word: 	Qav
Part of speech: 	verb
Definition: 	be final, be last
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'eb Qav jatlhpu' 
He said, "Last call!"  (CK)

veH Qav 'oH logh'e' 
space -- the final frontier  (S99)

(qepHom 2019):  {Qav} means last, final; it does not mean previous or most recent, so when talking about the last qep'a' you shouldn't use {Qav}, unless it's definitely the last one ever.
 
(KGT 177):  On the other extreme, when {-DIch} is attached to {Hoch} (all), the resulting word, {HochDIch} ("allth") is used as an alternate for {Qav} (be final, last) to refer to the final one of a series whose members either were counted or could have been counted, as in {pIpyuS pach HochDIch DaSoppu'} ("You've eaten the last pipius claw").  The word also may be used to describe the final step of a process.  Speaking of the Rite of Ascension, one might say {'oy'naQ Dachu'Ha'DI' mIw HochDIch Data'} ("When you turn the painstik off, you accomplish the last step").

(HQ 12.2:9):  For the end [of a list (of names or words)], one could say {pong HochDIch} "last name" or {mu' HochDIch} "last word", but one could also use a special term for the end of the list, {natlIS}. 

(Okrand to qurgh, 9/01/2010):  [For] "The Final Reflection" … if reflection, as in image in a mirror is needed, he [Maltz] offered {neSlo' tonSaw' Qav}. 

 (ghunchuwI’, 8/01/2017]:  It's an interpretative translation of the name of a book [by John Ford]: "The Final Reflection".  The reference is to a variant of a Klingon chess-like game [i.e. klinzha] in which the player is simultaneously trying both to capture the goal and to move to avoid letting the goal be captured.

SEE:
QavwI'  		last one (n) 
 - ghIq QavwI'chaj DuQchu' qeylIS betleH chaHDaq SIStaHvIS negh 'Iw 
   Then Kahless's bat'leth pierced the last of them, showered with the soldiers' blood. (PB)

SEE ALSO:
vorgh 		be previous (v)
veb 		be next (v)
nung 		precede (v)

natlIS 		last item in a list (n)
ghu'lIS 		entry in a list (n)

bertlham  	end (of an opera, play, story, speech, etc.) (n)
'o'megh  	end (of a song) (n)

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Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
    Please contribute relevant vocabulary from the last year or two. I’ve fallen 
    behind in updating my files and adding cross-references for related words.