For those interested in details, here's the transcript of talking to Marc Okrand at qepHom 2017 on Sunday, 19th November 2017, when he told me about {peD}: ---- MO: We just found a new word. LLL: Really? Tell me. MO: You got a piece of bread, a roll, with a hard crust, or whatever, and you cut it or you bite into it, it makes little crumbs. LLL: In German you would say "krümeln". "Das Brötchen krümelt." It means the little crumbs are falling out of it. MO: Yes. The Klingon word for that is {peD}. LLL: So, could there be other things falling out? MO: Maybe. LLL: Oh, {peD} is "snowing" anyway. So it can also be used for crumbs. MO: So the bread is doing that. Or has done that. LLL: Would there be other... Oh no, it's not transitive, so you cannot {peD} something. It's only {peD}. MO: [nods] LLL: Is there anything else we need to know? MO: Oh, probably. Most people need to know a lot of things. LLL: So I'll have the questions later. It's not a new word, anyway. MO: No. It's a new usage. LL: An extension of an existing word, I understand. MO: Yes. And that's one way to protect the three letters words. Cause they're an endangered species. You told me. LLL: You said it's for crumbs. What if I take confetti, for example, throw it in the air and it's raining down... so it's for everything falling down slowly? MO: [nods] LLL: But not rain? MO: No. LLL: So, water... If I'm spraying water we have {ghay}. And {SIS} is only related to rain. MO: No; {SIS} can also be used for something else, but I can't remember right now. ---- This information from #qepHom2017 will be added to the page "Message from Maltz" on qepHom.de: https://www.qephom.de/e/message_from_maltz.html -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.net http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Apostrophe