A bit off-topic, but this reminded my of an amusing instance the other day when one of the 3yr olds was talking about an owie on his "fingernail", but grabbing his toe; I told him "fingernails are on fingers", so he said, "mine footnail!" and so I said "toenail" and he repeated it and carried on with his tale of woe.

-QISta'

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:58 AM, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:

On 22 September 2016 at 16:00, <qurgh@wizage.net> wrote:
> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, September 22, 2016
>
> Klingon word: DeSqIv
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: elbow
> Source: KGT (214 KE, 241 EK)

Literally "arm-knee", the joke being that usually arms are primary
over legs, so some Earth languages have words like "leg-elbow" for
knees and "foot-fingers" for toes. Here, Klingon reverses this.

This word reminds me of the German word for glove, namely "Handschuh"
(lit., "hand-shoe"). Presumably Germans discovered shoes before they
discovered gloves.

--
De'vID

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