tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 01 12:36:03 1998
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Re: marrying
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: marrying
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 14:35:39 -0500 (CDT)
: Am/Um 08:27 01.07.98 -0700 schrieben Sie:
: >{Saw} = "he marries", and {nay} = "she marries", both gender specific. But is
: >it possible to stretch this gender rule as far as e.g. {Sawchuqbe'wI'pu' puq
: >ghaHbe'} for "he is illegitimate"?
:
: A different problem I've been thinking about:
: the two words for "to marry" are gender specific, so how would you say
: "We are married" or "JUST MARRIED!"??
:
: muHwI'
You don't. Just as there are separate words for "mother" (SoS) and "father"
(vav), but no gender-neutral noun "parent" or the verb "(be a) parent". But
you can say, for example:
*Dax Sawpu' wo'rIv. "Worf has married Dax." (or)
Sawpu' wo'rIv. "Worf got married."
wo'rIv naypu' *Dax. "Dax has married Worf." (or)
naypu' *Dax. "Dax got married."
tlhogh wIlop. "We perform/celebrate a marriage."
be'nalwI' ghaH. "She is my wife."
loDnalwI' ghaH. "He is my husband."
parmaqqaypu' maH. "We are par'Machkais."
bangpu' maH. "We are lovers."
qorDu' maH. "We are (a) family."
... which express the same basic idea. Focus on what you can say, not what
you can't. There are certainly many areas where we have no vocabulary at
all. This isn't one of them.
Voragh