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Re: mu' 'oH'a' <chuv>'e'?

David Trimboli ([email protected])

• From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: mu' 'oH'a' <chuv>'e'?
• Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:33:22 -0400
• References: <[email protected]>

From: "Philip Newton" <[email protected]>

> The grammatical category "leftovers" is called "chuvmey" in Klingon, net
Sov.
>
> Is it possible to form the singular of this word? For example, is the
> following sentence correct?
>
>     chuv 'oH <tlhIH>'e'
>     {tlhIh} is a "leftover"
>
> TKD lists {chuv} only as a verb - to be left over. Can it also be used
> as a singular noun?
>
> If not, how to refer to such a word? {chuvbogh mu'}? {chuvmey mu'}?

This has been a mystery since day one.  We just don't know.  So far as we
know, there is no noun {chuv}.  We can't infer its existence from the
specialized grammatical term {chuvmey}.

SuStel
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