Klingon at Halloween

This article explains some terms to use at Halloween. Some of these examples are circumscriptions. They are not all part of canon vocabulary.

Zombie vs. Vampire

For the qepHom 2016, one year after the "Halloween qepHom" qepHom 2015, Marc Okrand presented two new words:

Klingon	English	literal translation
yInbogh lom	Zombie	living corpse
'Iw remwI'	Vampire	blood sucker

This doesn't mean there are vampires and zombies in the Klingon Empire. Those are just circumscriptions. yInbogh lom for example consists of two parts: lom means corpse here, yInbogh consists of yIn for life and the type 9 verb suffix -bogh, which can be used to form relative clauses. Both words describe both the male and the female version.

qep'a' 2017

At qep'a' 2017, Marc Okrand presented some additional terms:

Klingon	English	Explanation
pel'aQ	coffin	actually the word for eggshells
nev'aQ	coffin, sarcophagus	more used for everyday coffins
nebeylI'	sarcophagus	used for special occasions as a special honor or certain ritual
jItuj'ep	mummy

What is Halloween?

If you would try to explain to a Klingon what happens at Halloween and what people on earth associate with those terms, it could look like the following:

Klingon	English
qaStaHvIS ramvetlh yInbogh lom, 'Iw remwI', jItuj'ep ghap lulIllu'	During this night, you imitate a zombie, a vampire or a mummy.
law' lutmey 'e' tu'lu':	The stories are numerous; you'll find them:
pel'aQDaq Dab 'Iw remwI'	The blood sucker lives in a coffin.
Ho'Du' tIn ghaj	It has big teeth.
be', loD je Qup chop 'ej 'Iwchaj tlhutlh	It bites young men and women and drinks their blood.
vaj 'Iw remwI' moj	Then they become blood suckers.
ghaH HoH jul	The sun kills them.
qaStaHvIS pem Qong	During the daytime they sleep.
qanqu' 'op 'Iw remwI'	Some blood suckers are very old.
chaH HoHlu'meH tIqchaj Qaw'nISlu'	To kill them, you have to destroy their heart.
yInbogh lommey chenmoH javtIm le'	A special virus creates living corpses.
HoH 'ej QoghIjDu' Sop	They kill and eat brains.
Qobbe' jItuj'ep	Mummies aren't dangerous.
yInbe'	They are not alive.

See also

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