Klingon word: mev
Part of speech: verb
Definition: stop, cease
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jImev
I stop. KLS
mev
Do not do that! (pet command) PK
SSS... mev! ba'!
Do not do that! Sit! (pet command) PK
yImev, yap!
Stop! It is enough! KGT
not mev peghmey
Secrets never cease. (secrecy proverb) PK
jIvIb. qaSDI’ vatlh DIS poH cha’maH Hut, jImev.
I time-travel to the 29th century. (lit. “I time-travel into the future. When
Century 29 happens, I stop.”) (qep'a' 2016)
jIvIbHa’. wejHu’ jImev.
I time-travel three days into the past. (qep'a' 2016)
bIjatlh 'e' yImev
Shut up! (Stop speaking!) PK
bIleS 'e' yImev
Stop relaxing! Stop resting! PK
bIyev 'e' yImev
Stop breaking! Stop pausing! PK
bIDum 'e' yImev
Stop napping! PK
bIjatlh 'e' yImev. yItlhutlh!
Stop talking! Drink! TKW
Sop 'e' mev
Stop eating! PK
mamevQo'. maSuvtaH. ma'ov.
Battling on through the Eternal fight. (Anthem)
jatlh 'e' mevDI' qeylIS, lop
After Kahless's words, they celebrate PB
jatlh 'e' mevDI' nuvpu' mejmoH ghaH ratlh be'nalDaj luqara' neH.
After his last words, all were sent away, but his wife Lukara. PB
(KGT 113: in re {mevyap}: No doubt in the past, the locution was longer, perhaps {yImev, yap!} ("Stop! It is enough!") Actually, {yImev!} ("Stop!") is the imperative form if the command is given to an individual; to tell a group to stop, one would say {pemev!}"
(KGT 154): {mevmoH} "cause [someone] to stop" -- (compare {mev}, "[someone] stops")
When {mev} is used with an object, has that object ever been anything other than {'e'} where the sentence-as-object as the same subject as the sentence with {'e'} as its object? That is, the subject is what stops/ceases, even if the verb has an object.
For example, it seems you can say {jIjatlh 'e' vImev} or {bIjatlh 'e' yImev} or {bIjatlh 'e' Damev}, but you'd have to say {bIjatlh 'e' vImevmoH} or {jIjatlh 'e' yImevmoH} or {jIjatlh 'e' DamevmoH}, adding a {-moH} when the subjects don't match.
There's a (non-canon) line in Hamlet's soliloquy which goes: {yIn mevbogh mIwvam'e' wIruchqangbej} "'Tis [i.e., death] a consummation / Devoutly to be wished." Looking at the examples of canon usage, I'm now wondering whether it shouldn't have been {yIn mevmoHvogh mIwvam}. Of course, being Shex'pir, this may not be standard language. {ruch} is also used with a noun object in that sentence as well, which also strikes me as unusual and maybe even wrong.
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