<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>>SEE ALSO:<br>>ruq belch (v)<br>>Hob yawn (v)<br>>tlhov wheeze (v)<br>>jev wheeze (v)<br>>chuy sneeze (v)<br>>largh smell, sense odors (v)<br><br><br>Let's look at the "Body Functions" section of the Landau Core Vocabulary and see how many of these words we have in Klingon:<br><br><br>to hurt, to ache, to feel pain: 'oy'<br><br>to feel (organically): jem<br><br>to breathe*: tlhuH<br><br>to eat* (of people): Sop<br><br>to eat (polite term, used only of other people): Sop<br><br>to eat (of animals): Sop<br><br>to swallow: ghup<br><br>to chew (of people): yIv<br><br>to chew (of animals): yIv<br><br>to munch on: ???<br><br>to digest: rID<br><br>to drink*: tlhutlh<br><br>to drink (alcohol): ???<br><br>to leave (not eat/drink: John left one chocolate): ???<br><br>to smoke: por pur<br><br>to vape: ???<br><br>to inject (heroin): QIn<br><br>to inject (medicine): QIn<br><br>to lick: roS<br><br>to lick (one’s plate): roS<br><br>to lick (stamp): roS<br><br>to take (medicine): ??? <br><br>to overdose: ???<br><br>to choke: voQ<br><br>to starve (suffer from hunger): ???<br><br>to starve (die from hunger): ???<br><br>to sleep*: Qong<br><br>to fall asleep: ???<br><br>to wake up: vem<br><br>to rest: leS<br><br>to pass out: vulchoH?<br><br>to suffer (be in pain): bech<br><br>to cough: tuS<br><br>to sneeze: chuy<br><br>to burp, to belch: ruq<br><br>to yawn: Hob<br><br>to hiccough: bur<br><br>to snore: wuD<br><br>to suck: rem<br><br>to suck (at a nipple): rem?<br><br>to suck (one’s thumb): rem?<br><br>to spit: tlhepQe' tuy'<br><br>to spit (of cat, camel): tlhepQe' tuy'<br><br>to drool: bol<br><br>to run (of a nose)<br><br>to vomit, to throw up, to puke: 'em<br><br>to urinate, to pee, to piss, to make water, to take a leak, to empty one’s bladder: turmIq vuj<br><br>to defecate, to take a dump, to do one’s business, to have a bowel movement, to poop: qeQ vuj<br><br>to break wind, to fart, to pass gas: Qep'It vuj<br><br>to bleed: regh<br><br>to sweat, to perspire: HID<br><br>to cool off (person): ???<br><br>to shiver: ???<br><br>to breast-feed, to nurse: ???<br><br>to beat (of the heart): ???<br><br>to flow (of blood): ghIt<br><br>to heal (intransitive): ???<br><br>to stretch (for relaxing muscles): ???<br><br>to stretch (to reach something): ???<br><br>to stretch (one’s legs): ???<br><br>to wipe (one’s hand): ???<br><br>to wipe (one’s nose): ???<br><br>to wipe (sweat from one’s forehead): ???<br><br>to bite (one’s nails): chop<br><br>to bite (of a fish at a hook): chop<br><br>to shed (skin): ???<br><br>to lay (eggs): ???<br><br>to die (of an animal): Hegh<br><br>to die (of a plant): Hegh<br><br><br>And a few body function verbs from the "Sex" section:<br><br><br>to have sex (with), to sleep with, to make love (to), to copulate, to fornicate, to screw, to do it: ngagh<br><br>to menstruate, to have one’s period: chI<br><br>to ejaculate: ghuch -- Well, kind of. We have a request for "sperm" at the chabal tetlh, so we'll be able to say *[sperm] vuj*. Until then, *ghuch* is the best we can do.<br><br><br>So we've got most of the body function words. majQa'! No surprise, since these are blood-and-guts basic concepts that are pretty culture-neutral for anthropic sapient species. (Well, not "vape".)<br><br><br><br>>Message: 2<br>>Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 14:09:35 +0000<br>>From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu><br>>To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org><br>>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: rech<br>>Message-ID:<br></div></div></div></body></html>