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.

Voragh

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On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 17:34, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

Klingon word: targho'nI'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: tungsten
Source: qepHom 2020
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(qepHom 2020): Here's another element that seems to have something to do with poison ({tar}), though Maltz didn't know what {gho'nI'} might mean. He said he'd never noticed a connection between poison and some elements before and doesn't know what to make of it. Did Klingons at some point use uranium and/or tungsten to make poison?

Tungsten is also known as wolfram, which comes from German "Wolf" ({targh}) + "Rahm" ({'o'nI'}).

(I guess that answers the question of which Earth animal Dr. Okrand thinks the targ is closest to.)

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De'vID