[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pe'bIl

[kechpaja at kechpaja.com]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 08:19:15AM +0100, De'vID wrote:
>On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 18:11, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, January 30, 2019
>>
>> Klingon word: pe'bIl
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: lightning
>> Source: qepHom 2016
>>
>
>I feel like there must be a cinematic reference here. "Lightning Bill" (or
>"Lightnin' Bill") was the name of several movie characters. But I can't
>figure out what the {pe'} is doing there.

Are you sure it's not just supposed to sound like {pe'vIl}? That's the 
way I remember that word, at least.