Klingon word: qa'rI'vel Part of speech: noun Definition: medium Source: qepHom 2025 _______________________________________________ (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) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons