tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 08 15:24:27 1995
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Re: KLBC I'm confused (was: Re: Transitivity)
On Mon, 8 May 1995 18:11:07 -0400, "Silauren, Half-Elven" <[email protected]> said:
> in the entire TKD, i have seen no indication that <-wI'>
> can be used in conjunction with a pronominal prefix.
[...]
> <HoHwI'> "one who kills" makes sense. right now, i can't make
> sense of anything that uses both a prefix and the <-wI'> suffix.
Just for the sake of the argument, I can make sense of {muHoHwI'}
`one who kills me', `my killer'; ditto for {DuHoHwI'} and so on.
People (though not Okrand, I believe) have been seen constructing
{-ghach}-nouns from prefixed words. If that is OK, why not this?
--'Iwvan