<div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 Jul 2017 4:24 pm, "Steven Boozer" <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="quoted-text">> > Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, July 09, 2017<br>
> ><br>
> > Klingon word: pay'an<br>
> > Part of speech: noun<br>
> > Definition: particle<br>
> > Source: qep'a' 23<br>
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</div>De'vID:<br>
<div class="quoted-text">> This looks like it's an obvious pun, but "pion" seems overly specific.<br>
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</div>Others have suggested "peon" (a laborer who is obliged to do menial work) and the related "pawn", but I think "pion" is more likely. Perhaps Okrand liked the sound of the (somewhat related) word.</blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I just got it.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It's the letter "p" plus "an", which is an article in English: p-article.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-- </div><div dir="auto">De'vID</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div></div>