<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 21 Jun 2020 at 22:02, Jeremy Silver <<a href="mailto:jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk">jp.silver@tiscali.co.uk</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">+----<br>
| loDmach n male genitalia, penis (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Was this approved by Okrand? A quick search turns up that it appeared in the novel "Star Trek Vanguard: Harbinger" on p. 202.<br></div><div> </div><div>I see that there's also a word *{tuQloS} from p. 200 referring to a kind of vitamin pill taken by a Klingon spy disguised as a Human, to overcome the deficiencies of non-Klingon food. Was Okrand involved in producing the words for this book?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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| melchoQ n marrow (bone), bone marrow (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wonder if this is a mass noun or if it ever takes the plural suffix.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">+----<br>
| mInyoD n eyelid (body-part) [lit. "eye shield" (used in Klingon <br>
Hamlet)]<br>
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| ngIb n ankle, knee. [also slang term of deprecation] (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Somewhat tangential question: would the plural suffix {-Du'} be used for {ngIb} and {yeb} even when referring disparagingly to beings capable of language?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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| pIp n spine, backbone (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The "backbone" part is non-canon?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">+----<br>
| porgh n body (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is kind of a philosophical question, but is a body a body part? A mathematician or philosopher might answer, yes, it is a body part, namely the part corresponding to the whole. But the relevant question here is how would one pluralise "two bodies", {cha' porghDu'} or {cha' porghmey}? Or is it context-dependent?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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| tel n wing (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wonder if a {toQDuj} has {telmey} or {telDu'}?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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| 'aDtay' n circulatory system (body-part)<br>
+----<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Source?</div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>