I happened to watch TOS "Return to Tomorrow" last night on Chicago TV. There was an relevant line where Kirk tells McCoy in the briefing room: “That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to.” Colloquially "stitch" would work just as well as "sew" here. "Suture" of course is the technical medical term. -- Voragh -----------------------------------Original Message----------------------------------- From: DloraH via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Friday, October 13, 2023 4:45 PM mu'ghomwIj: sew: to work with needle and thread. stitch: A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. On Fri, 2023-10-13 Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
at the qepHom words wish list, somebody asked for a word for "to sew". I searched for that, and noticed that we have a verb {QIS} of which I thought it has that meaning, at least it does so in German.
So I wondered: What is the difference between "stitch" and "sew", if there is any?