tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 09 12:56:58 1998

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Re: Compound nouns

• From: Susan Farmer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Compound nouns
• Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 15:54:47 -0500 (EST)

>:         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:
>
>*naHQeD        botany, horticulture
>

much stuff snipped.

I thought \tI\ was vegetation and \naH\ was just fruit.  The study of fruits
is a whole 'nother -ology.  I"ve always used \tIHaDwI'\for botanist
as one who studies plants.

tevram

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