tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Aug 30 17:59:12 1996
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Re: KLBC: jIyajbe'
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: KLBC: jIyajbe'
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 02:48:36 +0200
At 04:07 AM 30/8/96 -0700, you wrote:
>What about <ghach>? I have seen some confusion on when and how this
>can/should be used. According to my TKD, it would appear that it can only
>be used when the verb has a suffix. ie: <naDHa'ghach> for
>"discommendation".
You are mistaken here, {-ghach} can be used on noun without suffixes too.
TKD page 176 4.2.9. "...as nouns, but it is know that verbs ending in
suffixes (...) can never be nouns. The Type 9 suffix {-ghach}, however, can
be added to such verbs in order to form nouns." This piece of text doesn't
have the words "...can only be added to..." in it, thusly my interpretation
has always been that if a verb had no noun counterpart, that was known, one
could, only as distinguished noun, highlight it with the Type 9 suffix {-ghach}.
>Does this mean that it is equivalent to putting "-tion"
>in English? What do I do when I need a noun which is roughly "thing which
>is", such as when I was working on computer terms and wanted a word for a
>"program". I had <ghun> as a verb for "to program", but needed it to be a
>noun.
I think the word is acceptable, but some may disagree. In this case choose
the path that you find correct and plausible...
>According to TKD, and what I've seen here <ghunghach> is illegal.
You must have a different TKD than I do...
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