[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SepHa'

[Will Martin]

It’s not so much a pun as a model for raising something to a power. Breeding implies exponential growth as offspring each have offspring, so the opposite of exponential growth is taking a root of a number, as if you were removing the action of having exponentially grown.

pItlh

charghwI’ ‘utlh
(ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)




> On Apr 14, 2025, at 10:47 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
> 
> Klingon word: SepHa'
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: root, take a root
> Source: qepHom 2024
> _______________________________________________
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> Math, not botany.
> 
> (qepHom 2024):  "[Not necessarily only square root. Taking a root is the inverse of raising a number to a power.]" 
> 
> SEE:
> Sep  		breed (v)
> Hmm... "un-breed?"  If there's a pun here, I don't see it.  
> 
> SEE ALSO:
> mI'  		number (n)
> 'oQqar 		root, tuber (n)
> 
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