tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jan 11 08:52:17 1998
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Re: Compound nouns
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Compound nouns
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 11:52:21 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998 13:10:59 -0800 (PST) Susan Farmer
<[email protected]> 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:
> >
> >*naHQeD botany, horticulture
> >
>
> much stuff snipped.
>
> I thought \tI\ was vegetation and \naH\ was just fruit.
Fruit and vegetables. For myself, I have come to accept that if
you eat it, it is {naH}. If it is a plant and you don't eat it,
it is {tI}. Perhaps {tI} includes {naH} as a subset.
> The study of fruits
> is a whole 'nother -ology. I"ve always used \tIHaDwI'\for botanist
> as one who studies plants.
>
> tevram
charghwI'