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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Actually we do have some canon for {‘ay’}:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> 'ay'vamDaq nuHmey tIQeq
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Target weapons on this location. (ENT "Affliction")
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> moQbara' 'ay'mey bota'ta'
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> You have both finished the forms of the *<b>mok'bara</b>* (PB 104-5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> tlhIngan toQDuj 'ay'mey tetlh
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> Klingon Bird of Prey technical callouts (KBoP, ie. a parts list)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> taw ‘ay’
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> (city) block) (qepHom 2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">… and there is this suggestive compound noun from qepHom 2020:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> rem'ay'
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> diaphragm, thoracic diaphragm [body part]
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I agree with De’vID that {porgh ‘ay’Du’} is the best option for now, which is consistent with:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">porgh body<br>
porgh Dotlh health <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">porgh Hat body temperature
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porgh mIw bodily function <br>
porghQeD the scientific study of bodily functions <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Okrand OTOH may one day choose to connect body parts/organs somehow with {bIraqlul} *brak'lul* (redundancy in body parts). The Klingon body incorporates multiple
redundancies for nearly all vital bodily functions which gives Klingon warriors enormous resiliency in battle, since almost every function in their body is duplicated in case any primary organ or system fails. From various episodes we know that Klingons have
two livers, three lungs, twenty-three ribs, a redundant stomach, an eight-chambered heart, a backup for their synaptic functions, redundant neural functions, and at least two *QiVons* (whatever they are).
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Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol
<b>On Behalf Of </b>De'vID<br>
</span>On Fri, 28 Jan 2022 at 14:05, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Suppose I want to say "reproductive organs of the human body".<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Of course, since we don't have a word meaning "organ" as in
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</span>"organ of the human body", <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">I choose the next best thing I can find which is {'ay'}. So I ask..<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">{porgh 'ay'}?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">{ngaghmeH 'ay'mey} or {ngaghmeH 'ay'Du'}?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">Leaving aside the question of whether {ngaghmeH 'ay'} says what you want, for {'ay'} referring to body parts, I'd use {'ay'Du'}. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">We don't have any canon examples with {'ay'}, but we know from some other words that the plural suffix on a noun can change depending on what it's referring to. For example, {DIr} takes the suffix {-Du'} when
still on a body, but {-mey} otherwise:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/March/msg00545.html__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!ptzJiqqELDLvwQ19UG7WEUMXMceUTZGUv85p9Bomz1e7KGBIZWt8jlPA-CDvKzdbB1U$">https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1998/March/msg00545.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">The plural {latlhpu'} has appeared several times in canon when referring to people:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">{Heghpu'bogh latlhpu' ghuHmoH bey.} (SkyBox 31)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">{yIntaH qIrq 'e' vIneH. DaSwIj bIngDaq latlhpu' vItap.} (Star Trek Constellations p.232)<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">{latlhpu' law' pIlmoHpu' lutvam} (paq'batlh p.131)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">And lastly, there is a non-canon precedent: the plural {'ay'Du'} for body parts has also been used in the Tribble Song:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">De'vID<o:p></o:p></p>
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