On Tue, 1 Feb 2022 at 18:03, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

Klingon word: 'umyotlh
Part of speech: noun
Definition: profit
Source: qep'a' 28 [2021]
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(qep’a’ 2021): this is strictly in the monetary sense, not general advantage or benefit

If there's a pun I'm not seeing it: {'um} "be qualified" + {yotlh} "field (of land)"?

Maybe someone who is qualified is a "pro", and a field is where someone keeps "fit"? ({yotlh} also means a recreational field, as in park.)

Or maybe it's backwards of *{tlhoy mu'} "excessively word"...

De'vID