tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 28 13:50:19 1998
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Re: KLBC: -ghach
Oops, I guess qItHa'ghach would mean impossibility.
Can -ghach be used with all verbs? In TKD one example is lo'laHghach
(value). lo'laH doesn't even have a suffix. It's a verb meaning (be
valuable). So what it looks like to me is that Okrand took a verb and
put ghach on the end to make a noun.
"It is not known if all verbs can be used as nouns, but it is known that
verbs ending in suffixes (such as -Ha' undo in lobHa' disobey) can never
be nouns. The type 9 suffix -ghach, however, can be attached to such
verbs in order to form nouns." TKD p.176
That gives me the impression that only verbs ending in certain suffixes
can take -ghach but like I said, the example Okrand used doesn't have a
suffix.
Should I just tear this page out with my teeth? ;)
Oh, I don't want pagh to puke when he sees all my KLBCs so I'll open
this up to anyone. :)
Kryntes
Pam Felton wrote:
> chay' -ghach vIlo'?
>
> -ghach vIlo'chugh DIp moj wot'a'?
>
> qIt (be possible)
> qItHa' (be impossible)
> qItHa'ghach (possibility)
>
> jIlugh'a'?
>
> K'ryntes