[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: batleH bey'

[Steven Boozer]

I stand corrected.  There is one example:

qaStaHvIS wa'maH puq poHmey, wo'rIv batleH ghaj qorDu'Daj 
Worf's bat'telh has been in his family for ten generations. [SkyBox S8]

This spelling {batleH] may be a typo by the people at SkyBox.

The sword itself was first seen in TNG "Reunion" (TNG).

(De'vID, 11/3/2015):   {batlh} and {'etlh} were already in TKD to begin with.  When Ronald D. Moore co-wrote the TNG episode "Reunion", he wanted to call Kahless' blade "the Sword of Honor", which he translated using TKD as {batlh 'etlh} (or {batlh'etlh}, which was garbled into *bat'telh* in the printed script).  The actors mispronounced the word consistently as /bat-leth/, which Marc Okrand then retroactively canonised as {betleH}.  Source: the commentary track on the TNG Season 4 [DVD] set. 

Which also explains the origin of the bizarre "Federation Standard" spelling *bat'telh*.

Voragh

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From: Steven Boozer [Voragh] via tlhIngan-Hol
Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:17 AM

Klingon word: batleH bey'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Bat'telh display
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

Note spelling:  there's no "a" in {betleH}.