tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 20 17:08:47 2003
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Re: Kill me with a blunt object
From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
> On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 04:24:41PM -0400, David Trimboli wrote:
> > HIHoH! Doch jejHa' yIlo'!
> > Kill me! Use a blunt thing!
> So verbs used attributively can take affixes? Is this a general rule,
> reserved for -Ha', reserved for those verbs/affix combos that have their
> own entries in the dictionary or an addendum, or what?
We've seen adjectivally-used verbs have /-qu'/, /-be'/, and /-Ha'/:
Dujmey tInqu'
very big ships (TKD 49)
wa'maH yIHmey lI'be'
ten useless tribbles (CK, numbers)
Duj ngaDHa'
slang: wildly irresponsible person
literally: unstable vessel (KGT 150)
My guess is that these are the only affixes that can do this.
SuStel
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