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Re: Using -wI' on stative verbs?

Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Using -wI' on stative verbs?
• Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:59:14 +0100
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

Am 14.02.2004 15:28:36, schrieb "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>:

>Philip
>Can {-wI'} also be used on stative verbs ("adjectives") to describe
>someone or something who is like that adjective?
>
>For example, is {ngo'wI'} "something old" or do I have to say {Doch
>ngo'}? Similarly with {qanwI'} "somebody old" vs {nuv qan}? (And I know
>that {qanwI'} already has a meaning...)

Yes, and this is only idiomatic.
Literally, a {qanwI'} could be "someone who uses little toe" (?), but certainly is an "old one",
as we have

{yoHwI'}"brave one": 
    reH Hegh yoHwI'pu''e' - TKW #90/p.123
    Always is it the brave ones who die.

 and

{pujwI'}"weakling": 
   pujwI' HIvlu'chugh quvbe'lu' - TKW #19/p.24
   There is no honor in attacking the weak.

Quvar.

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