<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 23:03, 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">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">A German pun seems appropriate for the qepHom. De’vID, have either you or Lieven kept a list of German puns in tlhIngan Hol? I’ve know of a couple but I imagine
you both will have noticed more.</span></p></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div><br></div>No, I haven't kept a list specifically of puns made from German words.<div><br></div><div>There is one word which I was so sure was a German pun, but which Dr. Okrand has said is a completely unintentional coincidence: {Durghang} "lock". Locked doors often have a sign that says "kein Durchgang" (no passage) in German. (But maybe he saw a lot of these signs and subconsciously made the association.)</div><div><br></div><div>A related word there is {bot} "prevent, block, prohibit", which might be from German "verboten". Another word which might be from a German verb is {Such}, which has the same meaning as German "besuchen".</div><div><br></div><div>{pa'logh} "never" might be inspired by the German "damals" ("da" = "there", "mals" = "times").</div><div><br></div><div>The similarity of {chur} to "Schur" (related to the English word "shear") as in "Schurwolle" (virgin wool), which is considered uncomfortable, might be just a coincidence.</div><div><br></div><div>The similarity of {nIyma'} to German "niemand" seems to be a coincidence, as it's actually based on someone's name.</div><div><br></div><div>The affirmative answer {HIja'} seems to be composed of the affirmative answers in Japanese (hai) and German (ja).</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>