It’s interesting that all these patterns (shoe tread, tire tread, fingerprints) could as easily be interpreted as surface textures created by removing material as much as adding it. Removing, as in “minus”, or mIn’uS | Su’nIm… charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.
On Dec 2, 2020, at 10:08 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 02, 2020
Klingon word: Su'nIm Part of speech: noun Definition: raised profile, ridges, pattern (as in fingerprints, tires, shoe tread) Source: qepHom 2015 p.20 _______________________________________________
To describe foreheads, use {vIl} "be ridgy" vs. {Hab} "be smooth". A single forehead ridge is a {vIlHom}.
SEE ALSO: vem print, mark, tracks, image, pattern (n) - "left in the dirt from stepping on it" [qepHom 2015 p.20]
Degh medal, emblem, symbol, insignia, marking, mark (n) Damu' crease (n) wer be creased, wrinkled (v)
-- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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