[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mevyap

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: 	mevyap
Part of speech: 	excl
Definition: 	stop, enough already
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(KGT 113):  This expression, usually considered a single word, is used as a command meaning "Stop! Cease!"  It comes from two Klingon verbs, {mev} (stop, cease) and {yap} (be enough, be sufficient). No doubt in the past, the locution was longer, perhaps {yImev, yap!} ("Stop! It is enough!") Actually, {yImev!} ("Stop!") is the imperative form if the command is given to an individual; to tell a group to stop, one would say {pemev!} The dropping of the imperative prefix ({yI-} or {pe-}) is what would be expected in Clipped Klingon, the abbreviated form of the language frequently used in giving military orders or when under duress; {yap} (be enough) is used as if an exclamation or a single-word sentence meaning It is enough. The two words have been used in juxtaposition ({mev, yap}) for so long, they have come to be accepted as a single, though grammatically peculiar, word. If the order of the components were reversed ({yapmev}), the utterance would be meaningless.

TREK NOTES:
  "mevyap! "That is enough!" (Kurn to Worf, who was preparing to attack him. TNG "Sins of the Father")

 "Mev'Yap, Thopok!" (DS9 "Looking for Par'Mach in All the Wrong Places")

SEE ALSO:
rIntaH 		It is accomplished! It is done! (excl)
pItlh 		Done! All finished! (excl)

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