tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Jan 10 13:33:47 1998
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Re: rovers on adverbs
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Thaddaeus A. Vick wrote:
| The question arose on a MUSH where I play a Klingon. I seem to
|recall that you can use rover suffices on adverbs. jImaw''a'?
Not at all. Okrand discussed negative adverbials in HolQed 4.4 ("More from
Maltz"):
"The word for `dishonorably' is {batlhHa'}. This is clearly the
adverbial {batlh} `in an honored fashion' plus a suffix {-Ha'}, which might
be analyzed as the negative suffix that follows verbs or else as a suffix
identical in form (and meaning?) to it, but which appears with adverbials.
"Whether this {-Ha'} can be added to all adverbials is not clear. The
notes taken while working with Maltz indicate that he balked at {vajHa'}
(`not thus?') but accepted {Do'Ha'} `unfortunately'. Information on other
adverbials has not yet been uncovered, though it is probably in the notes
somewhere."
So far, though, we know of only four that can definitely be negated with
{-Ha'}:
batlhHa' dishonorably (KGT)
Do'Ha' unfortunately (KGT)
ghaytanHa' unlikely, not likely (RT)
pIjHa' seldom, infrequently (KGT)
Voragh