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Re: Klingon WOTD: qung (noun)

Alan Anderson ([email protected])

From: Alan Anderson <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qung (noun)
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:56:05 -0500
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

ja' lay'tel SIvten:

> [email protected] writes:
>
>> Used in canon:
>>
>>    qung wejDIch HengmeH qewwI' lo'
>>   (in order) to finger the third hole, he/she uses the ring finger  
>> (HQ
>> 10.2:7)
>>
>
> Seems like it would have been easier to just say:
> {qung wejDIch HengmeH qew}
> (in order) to finger the third hole, he/she uses the ring (third)  
> finger

It almost seems that {Heng} might not be a kind of {qew}.  I'd  
interpret it as a more general action that can't really be captured  
by any of the specific "finger" verbs (even while any "fingerer"  
digit can actually do it).

-- ghunchu'wI'

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