[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: vaw

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: vaw
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be ambitious, determined, motivated 
Source: qep'a' 25 [2018]
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(MO's qepHom 2018 Video Interview):  {pIl} is if something [or somebody] inspires you to do something.  Something external makes you really want to do it.  {vaw} is a character trait: you have determination and forbearance and ambition, but not necessarily inspired be something from the outside.  If you say 'I wanna be like him', that's {pIl}.  When I decide to do something and I carry it out to its conclusion, that's {vaw}. 

TREK NOTES:
   One of the Augments' creators wrote that "superior ability breeds superior ambition."  That same scientist was ultimately killed by one of his own creations.  This phrase was later quoted by Archer (ENT "The Augments") and Spock (TOS "Space Seed").

SEE:
pIl 		be stimulated, inspired, motivated (v)

SEE ALSO:
Hech  		intend,  mean to (v)
nab 		plan (v)
nIv  		be superior (v)

laH  		ability (n) 
ngoQ 		goal, purpose (v)

"To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: 
   Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n."  []Lucifer in Milton's "Paradise Lost"]

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons