tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 19 09:04:57 1996
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Re: Instant Coffee
>Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 01:41:41 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>-taHHa'
>That's the VS7 {-taH} "continuous", combined with the VSR {Ha'} "undo". What
>would that mean? Discontinuous, starting and stopping many, many times?
>Instantaneous, occuring in less than the blink of an eye? I'm inclined to go
>for
>the latter.
>There are other combinations I wonder about too, like {-neSHa'} (dishonored?
>ashamed? offended?) and {-lI'Ha'} (interrupted?) and {-beHHa'} (taken down?
>disassembled?) and {-choHHa'} (change back? maintain? the literal undo?).
>I view -taHHa' as "intermittent."
Note, though, that -Ha' can only come immediately after the VERB and may
not modify other suffixes. Sorry.
~mark