van

end (an event, e.g. a voyage, battle, song)

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

vɑn

Sound out van letter by letter:

• vvv as in 'vow'
• aɑa as in 'father'
• nnn as in 'nay'

• When an event over which one has some control ends (one can't cause a month to end), a different verb is used: van. This would apply to such things as voyages, battles, plays, operas, stories, and songs. Here, the event (the voyage, the song) doesn't end; the participant in the event or the perpetrator of the event ends it. For example: leng vanDI' SuvwI'pu' 'IQ chaH At the end of the voyage, the warriors are sad. bom vanDI' SuvwI'pu' tlhutlh chaH At the end of the song, the warriors drink.---Literally, these sentences mean When the warriors end the voyage, they are sad (leng voyage, -DI' when, SuvwI'pu' warriors, 'IQ be sad, chaH they) and When the warriors end the song, they drink (bom song, tlhutlh drink). [HolQeD-12-2 p.8]
• Maltz said he wasn't sure whether van end and van salute were really the same word, but he found it interesting that Klingons end things by saluting them. [HolQeD-12-2 p.8]

may' van SuvwI' the warrior ends the battle; participants are subj.

• Dor — come to an end (about period of time, e.g. month, year)
• ghang — prematurely end (an event, e.g. a voyage, battle, song)
• megh'an — end (of stick, piece of string etc.; opposite 'er'In)
• natlIS — last entry in list, end of list
• qa'rI' — end (of a long bounded space, e.g. corridor, conduit, road, bridge, field etc.)
• 'er'In — end (of stick, piece of string etc.; opposite megh'an)
• 'o'megh — end (of song)

HolQeD-12-2 p.8 · TDNW

Originally sourced from klingonska.org and enhanced by lingoXpress.