On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 07:31, James Landau <savegraduation@yahoo.com> wrote:
I spent most of the last several hours adding food words (including a new section for meals) to http://klingon.wiki/En/FoodVocabulary
I went about it by looking for words in the food section and words for edible plants in the plant section of the Landau Core Vocabulary, and finding words that had Klingon equivalents, but weren't already on the wiki article's list. I'm pretty sure I've got all the real words (including edible animals' meats), but there may be some fictional foods I've overlooked (confession: I've never watched Star Trek).
majQa'! I decided not to add *borghel* because although it sounds like a quail to
me, I can't figure out the pun and I'm not really sure that borghel is intended to be quail. I have eaten quail, though, and it is delicious, as are their eggs.
I've considered some possibilities but don't know what they have to do with birds or eggs. The Arabic word for bulgur is pronounced like {borghel}. It is a food item, and it's sometimes fed to birds, but has nothing really to do with their eggs. There are a number of dishes cooked with both bulgur and quail eggs, but that's a rather weak connection. Maybe Okrand just thought they looked like tiny bird eggs. There are some famous people named Borgel, including a Swiss watchmaker and a family of Tunisian rabbis, but again, nothing to do with birds or eggs that I could find. -- De'vID