[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qa'rI'vel (noun)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: qa'rI'vel
Part of speech: noun
Definition: medium
Source: qepHom 2025
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(qepHom 2025 REQUEST):  "This is a person able to make contact with the world of spirits" 

(KGT 117):  Note that the word for spirit, {qa'}, takes the plural suffix {-pu'}, which is used for beings capable of using language. Spirits do speak.

(MO to Lieven, 11/23?/2008):  {nIyma'} is the Klingon word for phantom or apparition--something that seems to appear, but isn't really there. It's not the same as ghost, which is the spirit of a dead person (and may or may not look like that person, or may not be visible at all), and it's not the same as spirit (or {qa'}), which is sort of a life force within a person (that escapes when a person dies and may exist somewhere somehow). He said using {qa'} for ghost was OK, but I got the impression there may be another word as well (though he didn't offer one).

In the KCD Immersion Studies Vok says, "The celebration was declared a lopno'. You have invited all the spirits of our Klingon ancestors." (KCD)

SEE:
qa'  		spirit (n) 
qa' qo'  		underworld, afterlife, realm of the dead (PB)

SEE ALSO:
jatyIn 			spiritual possession  (n)
  -  "the taking of the living by the dead. Spiritual possessions of this sort have been reported throughout Klingon history." (TNG "Power Play"; STEncyclopedia [1994])

Heghpu'wI' 		dead (person) (n)
Suto'vo'qor 		Sto-Vo-Kor (GN)
ghe'tor 			Gre'thor (GN)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons