Another vocabulary lesson, with words devoted to clothing and armor.

The word Sut clothing refers to clothing in general and is always treated, in Klingon, as a singular.  The word Sut is treated as a single mass of all the clothes together.  Like English, Klingon does not have a single word which can refer generically to a single piece of clothing.  Individual pieces must be referred to with the names of the specific items.

The word paSlogh socks is interesting because, like Sut, it seems to refer to socks in general and is translated into English as a plural, but always treated, in Klingon, as a singular. This is another inherently plural noun. It might help to think of the word as meaning something more like hosiery. Klingon does have a word which can refer to a specific, individual solitary sock: tu'mI'. It would be very unusual to use the word tu'mI' with a type 2 plural noun suffix and paSlogh would usually be used when referring to more than one sock. However, following the pattern of some other inherently plural nouns, one might be able to use tu'mI'mey to imply that there are socks scattered all about.

Since paSlogh is treated as a singular noun; you would say, Where are the socks? as nuqDaq 'oH paSlogh'e'? rather than *nuqDaq bIH paSlogh'e'?, and Wash the socks! as paSlogh yISay'moH! rather than *paSlogh tISay'moH!