tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 06 05:52:47 1998
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Re: MO about fork and spoon
>> From: "Marc Okrand" <[email protected]>
>>[...]
>>The Klingon word for "spoon" is {baghneQ}. Even though
>>spoons were never typically used when eating, the word
>>appears to have been in the language for a long time,
>>suggesting that it may once have meant something else. One
>>theory is that it comes from {nagh beQ} "flat stone, flat
>>rock" and that the initial sounds of the two words, {n} and
>>{b}, were, for some reason, transposed. This is, however,
>>just speculation.
Oh. My. Goodness. He's gone and done it again. Transposing the
initial sounds of the word for "spoon" indeed... aaarrrggghh!
-- ghunchu'wI'