[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pay'

[De'vID]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, April 12, 2013
>>
>> Klingon word: pay'
>> Part of speech: adv
>> Definition: suddenly
>
>   pay' HIvDI' lo'wI' pagh mupDI' QIHchu' bIH
>   [They] provide a damaging surprise attack or give a
>    devastating backhand stroke. SP2
>
> Note the apparent idiom:  {pay' HIv} "surprise attack" (i.e. "attack suddenly")

I wonder about the translation of {mup} as "backhand". Does {mup}
imply "backhand", the way {qIp} implies "hit with fist" and {weq}
means "hit with palm"? Or did something get dropped in the Klingon, or
did MO not care about the "backhand" part of the translation?

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De'vID