<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 16:00, Klingon Word of the Day <<a href="mailto:kwotd@wizage.net">kwotd@wizage.net</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 Tuesday, February 18, 2020<br>
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Klingon word: vIqraq<br>
Part of speech: noun<br>
Definition: artifact, work of art<br>
Source: qepHom 2016<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>"Fake rock"? </div><div><br></div><div>Someone (Visirius) posted this about ablaut reduplication on the Klingon Discord recently and it seems relevant to {vIqraq}:</div><div><a href="https://www.rd.com/culture/ablaut-reduplication/">https://www.rd.com/culture/ablaut-reduplication/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Does Klingon also follow this pattern? That is, are there words that sound like *{vaqrIq} instead? The only one that comes to mind is {raS'IS} (which is not *{rIS'aS}).</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>