Wait... is {Hut'In} a pun on the band "Nine Inch Nails"? I don't remember if that particular word'd origins have ever been discussed here, but it fits too well to be a coincidence. - SapIr On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 03:45:34PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote:
Klingon word: Hut'Inmey tIq Part of speech: noun Definition: sticks used for weaving, "knitting needles" Source: _______________________________________________
(Okrand to De'vID, 10/2014): [Maltz] said he does not knit and, in fact, wasn't quite sure what knitting was. I explained. He said there is a word perhaps best translated as "weave" and that he has heard of using sticks when doing a certain kind of weaving, but he didn't know a name for that other than "weaving". (There are apparently other types of weaving also.) The word for weave (verb) is {nIq}. For the sticks used when doing whatever this weaving technique is, he's only heard {Hut'Inmey tIq}.
(Lieven, 11/12/2014): After giving us the word for knitting, Maltz just revealed another useful and related word: it's {meS} and means knot, both as noun and verb. The object of the verb is the thing you use to make a knot, e.g. {tlhegh vImeS} - "I make a knot in the rope". To loosen the knot, simply say {meSHa'}.
SEE ALSO: Hut'In nail (n) Hut'In vIl screw (n)
-- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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