Am 04.04.2019 um 23:38 schrieb De'vID:
If the cook is ordering five pieces of Durani lizard skin from a butcher, it would be {vagh Duran lungmey DIr}, not *{vagh Duran lung DIrDu'}. I don't think the latter is possible, as {DIr} is being used in the sense of a material in this context.
Okay, that may be correct in this context, but what I suggested is not wrong either. At least, the latter is not impossible. In his message in st.k, Okrand wrote: ---- [...]if the skin just came off either by natural causes [...] or by the creatures being, well, skinned, then the body-part plural suffix {-Du'} may be used: {DIrDu'}. But {DIr} alone, without a suffix, is heard most often. ---- So we are both right. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/stk