[Tlhingan-hol] boqrat

[Lieven]

Today I stumbled over an article in memory alpha about an animal, which 
I always thought it was a klingon one: {boqrat} Since it looks so much 
"Klingon", I had never thought of the idea that it might be a rat! A 
"bok-rat". I'm a little confused, because if that is true, it makes it 
look like when when the Klingon word was created, the creator did not 
thinkt about the fact that this might be a "rat"... And next, does {rat} 
mean "rat"? I doubt it and would like to think about it as the "bokrat", 
which is NOT a rat... (??)

FYI:
the word is listed in KGT, and also in the glossary to Diplomatic 
Implausability.

Does anyone have more information?

-- 
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher