<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 17:00, 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 Sunday, April 25, 2021<br>
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Klingon word: Sawlay<br>
Part of speech: noun<br>
Definition: gesture<br>
Source: qep'a' 26<br>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>This is probably a coincidence, but I can't help but see this as 手禮 (pronounced in Cantonese as sau2 lai5, in Mandarin pinyin as shǒu lǐ), which literally does mean gesture in the sense of a hand movement (手 means "hand", 禮 means "courtesy" or "rite"), but which is found in modern Chinese mostly in the Taiwanese compound 伴手禮 meaning "souvenir" (a gift given to someone brought back from one's travels, a "gesture of companionship"), or in 按手禮 which is used in Christian religious contexts to refer to the ritual of ordination ("gesture of laying on hands").<div><a href="https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=*%E6%89%8B%E7%A6%AE*">https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=*%E6%89%8B%E7%A6%AE*</a><br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>(Or it's possible that someone once brought something back from a Chinese-speaking country as a gift to Dr. Okrand.)</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>