tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Apr 21 16:41:25 1997
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Re: family suffixes
|jatlh ~mark:
|> Hmm. Can't say about this one. At least you didn't say "*nal", which
|> would have been more intuitive. BUT Okrand (in TKW, if I recall correctly)
|> tells us that -nal is a bound morpheme, which doesn't occur on its own.
|> NOTE: the previous sentence was straight out of my fuzzy memory: someone
|> please double-check.
|
|I also recall this, let me check... a quick scan of TKW turned up
|nothing, but I know its there somewhere. I just flipped through really
|fast looking for a bold-print {nal} and didn't find anything. However,
|I am absolutely positive that you quoted Okrand correctly, regardless of
|source.
|
|-mIqIraH
Right quote, wrong source. It's from the KCD audio to {nalqaD}
"mate-challenge" (n.).
-- Voragh