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RE: mu'qaDmey tIQ (was:Re: imperative + -jaj)

Heather Myers ([email protected])

• From: "Heather Myers" <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: mu'qaDmey tIQ (was:Re: imperative + -jaj)
• Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:34:32 -0400
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> This reminds me of the following ancient curse:
> 
>      pa'mey ghajbogh mebpa'mey Daghajjaj 'ej Hoch pa'Daq lomlIj
>         tu'lu'jaj' vay'!
>      May you inherit a hotel with a thousand rooms and be found dead
in
>         every one!
> 
> 
> -quljIb

Agh.  I missed the fact that <mebpa'mey> now means "hotel".  Is this
weird to anyone else?  I see <mebpa'mey> and I read "guest rooms".  It's
got a plural suffix on it, yet it's a singular noun?  That bugs me.
Does this actually appear in the text of KGT, or is it just in the word
index?


jI'qel ghojwI'
<batlh wo' yejHaD je vItoy'mo' jIHem>

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