SEE ALSO: ruq         belch (v) Hob         yawn (v) tlhov         wheeze (v) jev         wheeze (v) chuy         sneeze (v) largh         smell, sense odors  (v)

Let's look at the "Body Functions" section of the Landau Core Vocabulary and see how many of these words we have in Klingon: to hurt, to ache, to feel pain: 'oy' to feel (organically): jem to breathe*: tlhuH to eat* (of people): Sop to eat (polite term, used only of other people): Sop to eat (of animals): Sop to swallow: ghup to chew (of people): yIv to chew (of animals): yIv to munch on: ??? to digest: rID to drink*: tlhutlh to drink (alcohol): ??? to leave (not eat/drink: John left one chocolate): ??? to smoke: por pur to vape: ??? to inject (heroin): QIn to inject (medicine): QIn to lick: roS to lick (one’s plate): roS to lick (stamp): roS to take (medicine): ???     to overdose: ??? to choke: voQ to starve (suffer from hunger): ??? to starve (die from hunger): ??? to sleep*: Qong to fall asleep: ??? to wake up: vem to rest: leS to pass out: vulchoH? to suffer (be in pain): bech to cough: tuS to sneeze: chuy to burp, to belch: ruq to yawn: Hob to hiccough: bur to snore: wuD to suck: rem to suck (at a nipple): rem? to suck (one’s thumb): rem? to spit: tlhepQe' tuy' to spit (of cat, camel): tlhepQe' tuy' to drool: bol to run (of a nose) to vomit, to throw up, to puke: 'em to urinate, to pee, to piss, to make water, to take a leak, to empty one’s bladder: turmIq vuj to defecate, to take a dump, to do one’s business, to have a bowel movement, to poop: qeQ vuj to break wind, to fart, to pass gas: Qep'It vuj to bleed: regh to sweat, to perspire: HID to cool off (person): ??? to shiver: ??? to breast-feed, to nurse: ??? to beat (of the heart): ??? to flow (of blood): ghIt to heal (intransitive): ??? to stretch (for relaxing muscles): ??? to stretch (to reach something): ??? to stretch (one’s legs): ??? to wipe (one’s hand): ??? to wipe (one’s nose): ??? to wipe (sweat from one’s forehead): ??? to bite (one’s nails): chop to bite (of a fish at a hook): chop to shed (skin): ??? to lay (eggs): ??? to die (of an animal): Hegh to die (of a plant): Hegh And a few body function verbs from the "Sex" section: to have sex (with), to sleep with, to make love (to), to copulate, to fornicate, to screw, to do it: ngagh to menstruate, to have one’s period: chI to ejaculate: ghuch -- Well, kind of. We have a request for "sperm" at the chabal tetlh, so we'll be able to say *[sperm] vuj*. Until then, *ghuch* is the best we can do. So we've got most of the body function words. majQa'! No surprise, since these are blood-and-guts basic concepts that are pretty culture-neutral for anthropic sapient species. (Well, not "vape".)

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