[tlhIngan Hol] baby rattle

[Steven Boozer]

I suppose just {chuSwI’} was already taken:

  "A rodent that mostly lives underground and makes an annoying noise." (Klingon Empire: A Burning House series by Keith DeCandido; first referenced in his Enemy Territory; spelling vetted by Okrand in DeCandido's The Klingon Art of War)
Voragh

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From: De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol
My children wanted to know what is the Klingon word for the object that the baby Klingon ({ghu}) is shown playing with in the book "Baby's First Klingon Words". If you haven't seen it, it's a baby rattle.  I mentioned their question to Dr. Okrand and here's what he wrote back:

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[MO] regarding the baby's rattle: For a baby, an important (defining?) characteristic of a rattle is that it makes noise. On the other hand, this is a Klingon toy, so its resemblance to a weapon is not unimportant. Perhaps it's a {ghu ghanjaq chuS} (though, in everyday speech, this would likely be shortened to {ghanjaq chuS}).
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