tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 21 09:39:05 1998
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Re: -ghach and noun/verb pairs
According to David Trimboli:
>
> From: William H. Martin <[email protected]>
>
> >According to David Trimboli:
>
>
> >> Then again, I'm still not convinced that {-ghach} isn't reserved only for
> >> noun/verb identical pairs. I rather like the idea, and there is a bit of
> >> support for it.
> >
> >nuqjatlh? I cannot extract meaning from this string of words.
>
> I mean I think it's possible that {-ghach} might only be used when trying to
> change a verb of a noun/verb pair back to a noun when adding other suffixes
> to it.
Dajqu' qechlIj. tobba'ta'be', 'ach Dajbej.
> The big thing which contradicts this idea is the word {tlhutlhtaHghach},
> given above. At the time I first thought of this, Okrand had not yet
> proclaimed "there is no noun for 'drink.'" This left the matter unclear on
> this word. Once he did, {tlhutlhtaHghach} tends to disprove the idea
> (though it's not inconceivable that there is a noun {tlhutlh} with a meaning
> we don't know, not that I'm advocating such a noun).
>
> I'm not saying this must be the way things are. I'm simply stating that it
> would clear up some of the unclear langauge used in explaining {-ghach}.
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