On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 9:47 PM James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Many new words for animals, clothes, and food! We can talk about bees now, and we finally have a word for "Ukraine"! It's also nice to have a word for turtleneck, since that's what I always wear.
http://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepHom2022
lachvoH (bee hive) -- Backwards, this is *Hov chal*, starry sky. Perhaps the Beyhive (as in, Beyoncé & Co.) is a "sky full of stars"? Aside from *'ImtIy*, though, Marc Okrand doesn't seem to make puns about twenty-first century pop culture. Or else he would've made the word for "beaver" something like *nItsaj* or *da'ghet*.
MO has made more than a few puns that are apparently about semi-obscure recent television shows (see: *qIr'a'*, *'obray'wal*, *'eQway*), but in this case I suspect it's something more like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beehive_Cluster, a star cluster known since antiquity.
waDwach (scarf) -- Backwards this is "chow down" -- the OTHER meaning of "scarf".
*maj. vIparHa'.* I'm having trouble with some of the other new words so far, although while we're on the subject of puns, here's one I found recently: *rober* - axis. The Axis Powers in WWII were originally known as the "Rome-Berlin Axis"