[[ [2009-04-14] added document header Style: /=bold Type: newsgroup posting Date: 7 July 1998 Title: Re: Marc Okrand--apologies to all. Author: Marc Okrand Summary: On {ghIqtal}. ]] From: "Marc Okrand" Newsgroups: startrek.expertforum Subject: Re: Marc Okrand--apologies to all. Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 Patrick Goodman wrote... >> IIRC, and I usually do, "gik'tal" means "to-the-death" and >> doesn't really exist, Worf made it up. > > Gik'tal (sp?, Klingonists?) does exist, as I understood it; it was > the ritual that Worf performed with Ens. Seto that he made up. /ghIqtal/ means "to the death" in an archaic form of Klingon. It survives as an exclamation, something that you'd probably just shout out (or snarl) at the start of or in the throes of battle or a duel. [[eof]]