Reminds me of monster house:

Girl: “look! That must be the uvula”

Guy: “ooooooh, so it’s a girl house”

Girl: confused look

Sent this to my wife that’s a speech and language pathologist who will without a doubt not laugh but rather answer the question haha.

Edit: called it lmao

Uvula.

The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen

“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).

And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.

It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃