Maltz says there is a verb wev that means "sketch" or "doodle." The object of this verb is the image that's drawn. The notion is that it is a quick drawing, not a careful one.

In English, the word "doodle" implies that the person doing the doodling is not paying attention to what is being drawn or sketched.  The person is at a meeting or on hold on the phone and is bored perhaps. The Klingon word does not necessarily have this connotation.

Sometimes the picture that results from wev-ing is identifiable (so if you say DI'raq vIwev, hopefully you end up with a picture that is identifiable as a sheep-like animal). But sometimes the result is not easily identifiable or namable” it's just circles or squiggles orjagged lines or a mishmash of things.  In that case, the "picture" can be called a yay. Maltz thought that there must be some sort of connection, historically at least, between this yay and yay meaning "victory" or "triumph," but he said he didn't know what it was (or if, for sure, there is one).

Although the implement used to wev the drawing/sketch/doodle could be anything, it is not common to use wev if the implement is a rItlh naQ.

And, anticipating a question, I asked Maltz if there was any connection between this verb and the noun wev meaning "row (in a table/spreadsheet)." He said he didn't think so.

Maltz said he'd never read "The Little Prince" in any language before and he was very curious about why there was so much fuss about the drawing of a sheep.  He's looking forward to finding out.

  - Marc

Besides being used for a row in a grid (as in a spreadsheet or other graphic representation), wev can be used for physical things in a row IF the overall configuration is (or might be) grid-like and there are (or might be) other rows, not just one. So it can't be used for, say, a lineup of people waiting to get into a movie or a lineup of possible perpetrators in the police station waiting to be identified by the victim.

The word for the first of those (waiting for a movie) is lanSoy.

The word for the second (police lineup) is wIyqap.

An important difference between the two is that in the case of lanSoy, it is expected that the row or line of people or things is (or will be or might be) in motion, one member of the row following the other, and eventually the row diminishes until it's gone. The constituents of a wIyqap aren't expected to move.

Also, if the people (or things) get sort of bunched up, so there's an individual followed by a group of three followed by another individual followed by a group of two, etc., etc., but the overall structure is one line, it's still one wIyqap or one lanSoy (or one wev, for that matter, though probably not in a graph).

For wev, there are usually several distinct rows. For example, rows of corn or rows of trees growing in a field on a farm. If there's only one row in a situation where typically there are two or three or more (or it wouldn't be surprising to have two or three or more), wev is still appropriate. So if the farm had several rows of corn under cultivation but only one row of apple trees, you could still use wev for the trees because, on a farm, things are planted in wev-like configurations.

If there's only one row (or line) where there's typically only one, one of the other words is more likely. But, just as wev can be used for a single row, wIyqap, for example, could be used for both of two rows of hardened thugs lined up, one row behind the other, waiting to be scrutinized by the victim. If there are two rows of people waiting to get into a concert venue that has two side-by-side entrances, you'd still use lanSoy for each of them, not wev.

When confronted with one row in a situation where the speaker doesn't know whether this is usual (this sort of arrangement typically has one row) or aberrant (this sort of arrangement typically has more than one row, but not this time), the word wIyqap is probably the right choice.

And finally - the slang term mIr "chain" can, if things are clear, be used for wIyqap or lanSoy (though probably not for wev).

Some more computer terms:

spreadsheet, table
wa'chaw

row
wev

column
war

grid
tlhat

botnet (a computer word)
qoq De'wI' Dojmey

form (to be filled out)
yu'muD

There is no difference between a paper form or a digital form on a computer screen. When you fill in a form, you say naQmoH.