<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><head><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml><o:OfficeDocumentSettings><o:AllowPNG/><o:PixelsPerInch>96</o:PixelsPerInch></o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4458">Steven Boozer wrote:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4412"></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4459">>FWIW we now have the noun {Su'nIm} ?raised profile, ridges, pattern (as in fingerprints, tires, shoe >tread)? from qepHom 2015. Okrand affirmed at qepHom 2009 that a single forehead ridge is a >{vIlHom}.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4414">><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4415">>To describe foreheads {QuchDu?} we use {vIl} ?be ridgy? vs. {Hab} ?be smooth?. Before {vIl} some >of us used {ghegh} ?be rough? or {tlher} ?be lumpy? (associated with food in KGT) to describe >foreheads, so I suppose these are available.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4416">><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4417">>If I saw *{qab vIl / ghegh / tlher} though, I would immediate think of those latex prosthetics that Trek >actors wear on their faces when playing aliens. <g></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4460"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4461">"Su'nIm" could be a good word for wrinkle. I'm surprised, though, that it took until 2009 for Klingon to have a word for something as quintessentially defining of Klingons as forehead ridges. There is the SF narratology term "rubber-forehead alien" for instance.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_7622"><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberForeheadAliens" class="enhancr2_60e2c946-ebd2-aa7c-123e-37b0a8f274ff" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4426"><br></a></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_7621"><a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RubberForeheadAliens" class="enhancr2_60e2c946-ebd2-aa7c-123e-37b0a8f274ff" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_4426">Rubber-Forehead Aliens - TV Tropes</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_7612"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1501215887576_7625"><br></div></div></body></html>