tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Aug 18 14:33:34 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Sunlight and Starlight
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Bellerophon, modeler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm no canon authority, but I've noticed other compound words that strongly
> imply additional vocabulary.
Such as {nentay} "Rite of Ascension", perhaps? That one should tell
you to be cautious about what you infer. Yes, {nen} was eventually
revealed to us as a noun, but with the definition "growth, maturity".
The true meaning of an apparent morpheme doesn't necessarily
correspond to what you might expect based on the translation of a
compound.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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