tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 24 16:50:29 1998
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Re: -ghach and noun/verb pairs
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: -ghach and noun/verb pairs
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 13:11:09 -0400
From: TPO <[email protected]>
>>> 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).
>
>In KGT p83, MO says that Soj is the term for food of any kind ***including
>beverages***.
Irrelevant. It's not important to find the correct noun for "drink," it's
only important here to show that {tlhutlh} is not a noun for "drink." I
believe that the word is *never* a noun, but I cannot prove that.
SuStel
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