tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Sep 13 17:36:09 1993
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Re: Two More Comments on +Du' +mey
[email protected] says:
: [David Sturm:]
: >>And even worse, doesn't +Du' seem vaguely suggestive of *DU*al?
: Also, +mey isn't that far from more, in German, *MEH*r.<<
And could >pu'< possibly be from PlUral?
:
: I have similarly suggested that the -Daq suffix might be an
: abbreviation/corruption of Dative-Locative, the usual linguistic terms for such
: a case ending.
Perhaps; here's another idea. Turkish uses suffixes for many purposes, as does
tlhH (tlhingan Hol). The "locative" suffix in Turkish is usually given as
"-de", but it becomes "-da" after back vowels: ev-de "in the house", oda-da "in
the room". I've been trying to learn Turkish lately, and >Daq< comes to mind
every time.
:
: Ken Beesley
:
:
Qapla' Qichqengwi'vo'.
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