Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, March 02, 2020 Klingon word: vIq Part of speech: noun Definition: battle, combat (abstract) _______________________________________________ CHANCE 'echletHommey COMMUNITY CHEST 'echletHommey je qa' quv 'echletHommey vIq 'echletHommey je COMBAT and HONOR cards replace Chance and Community Chest cards. (MKE) wa'maH jav vIq 'echletHommey 16 COMBAT cards (MKE) (KGT 47): In parallel fashion, any specific battle is {may'}, but the concept of battle is {vIq}, often translated as "combat" ... In short, the nouns {veS} (war, warfare) and {vIq} (combat) and the verb {Qoj} (wage war) all are used to refer to the ideas of warfare, combat, and making war, while the nouns {noH} (war) and {may'} (battle) and the verbs {ghob} (make war, do battle) and {Suv} (fight) are used when referring to specific, concrete instances of war, battle, and fighting. Thus it is possible to say ... {may' ghob} or {may' Suv}, meaning "He/she fights a battle", but it is not normally acceptable to say ... *{vIq Suv} ("He/she fights a combat"). CULTURAL NOTES: "An honorable death in personal combat requires no vengeance." (quoted in DS9 "House of Quark") "There is no victory without combat." (Kahless, quoted in ENT "Divergence") PUN: U.S. actor Vic Morrow starred in the 1960s TV series "Combat". SEE ALSO: yol conflict (n) Seng trouble (n) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons