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Daj. I assumed that while Okrand deliberately put (difficult for babies)
sibilants in the word for mother, that he instead gave the suckling sound
to the word for milk. nIm nIm nIm = nom nom nom and comes
from mama. Maybe he knows of the Hawai'ian word. There is a certain
similarity between and eye and a nipple. In unrelated news, my friend's
cat has a nipple on its leg, the result of a skin graft after an
accident.<br><br>
And that suddenly made me want the Klingon word for defecate to be
onomatopoeic, but the closest I could come was nga', and unless nga'chuq
has a very strange etymology indeed, that's taken. <br><br>
- Qov<br><br>
At 16:15 '?????' 8/10/2012, Michael Roney, Jr. PKT wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On word pairs:<br><br>
The Hawaiian word for "nipple" is (maka waiū) which translates
as "milk eye" which in Klingon is one of those oddly related
word pairs.<br><br>
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~'anan naHQun<br><br>
~Michael Roney, Jr.<br>
Professional Klingon translator<br>
webOS developer<br><br>
-- Sent from my "Franken" Palm Pre 2<br><br>
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