On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 at 16:00, Klingon Word of the Day <kwotd@wizage.net> wrote:

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Klingon word: vIqraq
Part of speech: noun
Definition: artifact, work of art
Source: qepHom 2016

"Fake rock"?

Someone (Visirius) posted this about ablaut reduplication on the Klingon Discord recently and it seems relevant to {vIqraq}:

https://www.rd.com/culture/ablaut-reduplication/

Does Klingon also follow this pattern? That is, are there words that sound like *{vaqrIq} instead? The only one that comes to mind is {raS'IS} (which is not *{rIS'aS}).

De'vID