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…

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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
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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)

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