[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SoSbor

[nIqolay Q]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 4:49 PM, kechpaja <kechpaja at comcast.net> wrote:

> Do we have an (in-universe) etymology for this word? The {SoS} element
> suggests that it might have once meant "womb" or something similar, and
> then drifted to the meaning of "core".


Very few words are given in-universe etymologies. Also, most multi-syllable
root words will have single-syllable words contained in them, so I don't
think it's necessarily significant in-universe that {SoSbor} is made of the
words for "mother" and "gurgle".
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