tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 09 08:41:46 1998
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Re: Compound nouns
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Compound nouns
- Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:39:19 -0600 (CST)
Edy wrote:
: When the noun << QeD >> when attached to another noun
: give the new word the sense of our suffix -logy ?
: tlhIlQeD - Mineralogy; wIchQeD - Mithology; tIqQeD - Cardiology; and so on.
: It could apply to << tej >> too? tlhIltej - Mineralogist; wIchtej -
Mithologist
: tIqtej - Cardiologist..
Many people do just this. On this mailing list I've seen:
*be'QeD gynaecology
*De'wI'QeD computer science, cybernetics
*Ha'DIbaHQeD zoology
*HovQeD astronomy
*naghQeD geology
*naHQeD botany, horticulture
*nughQeD sociology, anthropology
*qamQeD podiatry
*qunQeD historiography
*tIQQeD archaeology
*veSQeD military science
*yabQeD psychology
*yInQeD biology
But, the only official compounds we have are:
HolQeD linguistics KGT
Hov leng QeD "Treknology" STC [not exactly a compound, but the principle's
the same]
HuchQeD economics (KGT 148)
And since we're on the topic, everyone knows the pun for {QeD}, right?
... Q.E.D. (quod erat demonstrandum)!
Voragh