tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 26 19:40:54 1995
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Re: Adverbial Concepts
On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, Silauren, Half-Elven wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Apr 1995, William H. Martin wrote:
>
> > The general rule is that in Klingon, verbs roots are always
> > monosyllabic. Nouns and chuvmey may become polysyllabic, but
> > not verbs. I know of no exceptions.
>
> hrm... i remember from my Klingon class that there was one or two
> exceptions to this rule, but offhand i don't know what they are.
> glancing through a list of verbs from class notes, i see the verb
> {Qapla'} (v, win), but i can't find that verb in TKD and have no idea
> where it came from. (may have been a mistake in the handouts or
> something.)
ghaytan Qagh 'oH. "to win (a competition)" is {Qap}. HolQeD chu' DoD
loS yIlaD.
BTW, where did you find a Klingon class?
> anyone know of other bisyllabic verbs, ie, from the tapes or published in
> HolQeD issues? or something from TKD i've overlooked?
I certainly don't know of any, except of course, those which are listed
with a verb suffix.
> > charghwI'
>
> --naQ'avwI'
yoDtargh