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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] tera' Hovtay'Daq PLUTO HurDaq bIHtaH'a' latlh yuQmey?

SuStel ([email protected])



On 1/20/2015 1:11 PM, SuStel wrote:
On 1/20/2015 12:54 PM, [email protected] wrote:

It’s a noun. We can’t forget that inconvenient truth. The definition is
“(noun) additional one, another one” and we keep wanting to eliminate
the word “one” from it and use it to mean “(adjective) additional,
another”.

I think the moral of this story is that some nouns can modify other
nouns in a very adjectival way, and still be nouns.

By the way, this is just another example of the genitive noun-noun construction (TKD §3.4). {latlh tlhIngan} "additional-one Klingon," as distinguished from the Klingon I was first talking about, the "first-one Klingon."

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SuStel
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