<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:52, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, January 13, 2019<br>
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Klingon word: pet<br>
Part of speech: verb<br>
Definition: be welded (together)<br>
Source: qepHom 2016<br>
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Cf. also {petqaD} "bone-knitter" (medical device).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It's probable that {pet} was back-derived from {petqaD}, which presumably does the job of welding (maybe even literally) bones together. {petqaD} is, of course, "duck tape" backwards, which makes {pet} "tape" in reverse.</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>