I had the same thought. I wondered if anyone else would.
--Voragh
From: De'vID
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 15:52, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, January 13, 2019
Klingon word: pet
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be welded (together)
Source: qepHom 2016
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Cf. also {petqaD} "bone-knitter" (medical device).
It's probable that {pet} was back-derived from {petqaD}, which presumably does the job of welding (maybe even literally) bones together. {petqaD} is, of course, "duck tape" backwards, which makes {pet} "tape"
in reverse.
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De'vID