Woo-hoo! New words! jISeyqu'ba'!

A huge congratulations and thanks to Lieven who put all this together! bIDunqu'!

Some of what's included in the list this year is vocab I received for a book I recently finished, cha' monmey (http://klingon.wiki/En/ChaMonmey). It's quite lengthy, and so there were a few terms for which I ended up querying Dr. Okrand (and Maltz, of course) in order to make my text as clean as possible.

Most of that info can be found in the qepHom booklet, so I won't be redundant and also post it here. I will, however, post a clarification on the word qal and some more culled comments on wejHa':


qal	be corrupt (v)	this can be used to describe corrupt people

wejHa'	already (adv)	wejHa' is an adverbial meaning "before now" or "as of now." It doesn't have to be "now" (meaning the time of speaking), of course, so maybe a better (though more awkward) characterization is something like "before or as of a time referenced in the sentence or context." I've already bought food ("already" referencing now, the time of speaking) By 6:00 p.m., I'd already bought food ("already" referencing a time established in the sentence or context) I suppose "already" is a good short gloss. As with "already," I think you'd use wejHa' if you intend to explicitly indicate a change of state or change of conditions. For example, "already" in I have to leave because it's already dark implies not only that it's dark now, but that the change from light to dark is somehow relevant — it's become dark, it's no longer not dark (perhaps it got dark sooner than expected or desired or while nobody was paying attention to the time or something like that). The sentence means more than just "I have to leave because it is dark now." But wejHa' doesn't totally match up with English "already." wejHa' does not carry the connotation of impatience or exasperation expressed by "already" in Stop already with the fidgeting. wejHa' and -pu' can be (but don't have to be) used together. And it's subtle.

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-DeSDu'