tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 09 15:39:00 1997
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ja'chuq
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: ja'chuq
- Date: Thu, 9 Jan 97 22:58:06 UT
Y'know, I just noticed something in TKD (I just love it when that happens).
We have often wondered whether {ja'chuq} is the verb {ja'} plus the suffix
{-chuq}, or if it's a single root verb, {ja'chuq}. Well, Okrand tells us! On
TKD p. 65, he says, "The verb is made up of {ja'} 'tell,' {-chuq} 'each
other'; thus, 'confer' is 'tell each other'."
This seems pretty explicit to me. Am I missing any possible interpretations
of this?
The implication would be that {ja'chuq} cannot take an object. When using
{-chuq}, you must use the prefix meaning "no object," and the subject must be
plural. Thus, you cannot say things like {Dup wIja'chuq} for "We discuss
strategy." You'd have to say {maja'chuqtaHvIS Duq wIqel}.
Finally, this would lend support to the idea that entries in the dictionary
which appear to be verbs plus suffixes actually are (and not special
multisyllabic verbs). I wouldn't go so far as to do anything with the verb
{tuQ} and its weirdness (there is canon somewhere supporting the fact that
{tuQmoH} is a different verb than {tuQ} + {-moH}), I noticed it recently
somewhere).
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