It’s not so much a pun as a model for raising something to a power. Breeding implies exponential growth as offspring each have offspring, so the opposite of exponential growth is taking a root of a number, as if you were removing the action of having exponentially grown.

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On Apr 14, 2025, at 10:47 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:

Klingon word: SepHa'
Part of speech: verb
Definition: root, take a root
Source: qepHom 2024
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Math, not botany.

(qepHom 2024):  "[Not necessarily only square root. Taking a root is the inverse of raising a number to a power.]"

SEE:
Sep   breed (v)
Hmm... "un-breed?"  If there's a pun here, I don't see it.  

SEE ALSO:
mI'   number (n)
'oQqar root, tuber (n)

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