<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>It’s not so much a pun as a model for raising something to a power. Breeding implies exponential growth as offspring each have offspring, so the opposite of exponential growth is taking a root of a number, as if you were removing the action of having exponentially grown.</div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div>
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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 14, 2025, at 10:47 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Klingon word: SepHa'<br>Part of speech: verb<br>Definition: root, take a root<br>Source: qepHom 2024<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Math, not botany.<br><br>(qepHom 2024): "[Not necessarily only square root. Taking a root is the inverse of raising a number to a power.]" <br><br>SEE:<br>Sep <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>breed (v)<br>Hmm... "un-breed?" If there's a pun here, I don't see it. <br><br>SEE ALSO:<br>mI' <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>number (n)<br>'oQqar <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>root, tuber (n)<br><br>--<br>Voragh<br>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>tlhIngan-Hol mailing list<br>tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org<br>http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>