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[Tlhingan-hol] paq'batlh: VERBS USED AS NOUNS

Agnieszka Solska ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']

Clear cases:

{tuj} – n. heat 

   Their anger so hot,
     It could melt the rock
   tujqu'choHmo' QeHchaj
     nagh tetlaH tujvam
   (pp 76-77)

{puj} – n. weakness

   United to do battle together!
   Against fear and against weakness!
   SuvvIpghach puj je
   HarghmeH yeq chaH
   (pp 118-119)

{ghom} – n. assembly 

   SIqral bIQtIq ghom
   Assembly at the River Skral
   (pp 140-141, 202-203)


   The word cannot be a verb because then the line would mean 
   "They meet the River Skral", which doesn't make sense in the 
   light of what happens in the book.

Unclear cases:

- {ngaS} – Contents (pp 200-201)

- {Dor} – The End (pp 44-45, 200-201)

- {tagh} – The Beginning (pp 48-49, 200-201)

- {wam} – The Hunt (pp 56-57, 200-201)

- {tuH} – Humilation (pp 58, 200-201)

- {tlha'} – The Pursuit (pp 72-73, 200-201)

- {veqlargh toj} – The Deceit of Fek'lhr (pp 96-97)

- {nargh} – The Escape (pp 106-107, 202-203)

- {SaqSubDaq chegh} – Return to the Saq'sub (pp 118-119, 202-203)

All of these are titles of specific cantos with the exception of {ngaS},
which can also be considered as a type of heading naming a section in a
book. The problem is that while some cantos bear the titles in which the doer 
of the action is clearly specified, as in:

- {'omchoH chaH} – Forging the Resistance

- {Hay' chaH} – The Duel

- {ghe'tor 'el qeylIS} – Kahless enters Gre'thor

- {ghom gholpu'} – The Opponents meet

some cantos do not and the key word they contain could be interpreted as a noun or
as a verb.

I'd say the following should probably be interpreted as verbs:

- {Dor} – literally "(It/Something) ends"; 
          after all there is a known noun meaning "end", i.e. {bertlham},

- {tagh} – literally "(It/Something) begins"; 
           after all there is a known noun meaning "beginning", i.e. {bI'reS},

- {wam} –literally "(They) hunt";  
         after all there is a known noun meaning "hunt", i.e. {chon},

I am not so sure about the status of the key word in the remaining titles. 
Assuming that the titles are inconsistent with respect to using explicit 
subjects, the title {veqlargh toj} can be interpreted as "He (i.e. Kahless) 
deceives Fek'rlh" or it could be interpreted as a two noun construction, 
with {toj} functioning as the noun "deceit". 

Other titles like that include:

- {ngaS} – "contents or "It (i.e. the book) contains,

- {tuH} – "humiliation" or "(He) is ashamed",

- {tlha'} – "pursuit" or "(They) pursue" or "(He) pursues (him)",

- {nargh} – "escape" or "(They) escape",

- {SaqSubDaq chegh} – "Return to the Saq'sub or "(They) return to the Saq'sub"

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