tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Nov 06 19:33:54 1994
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Re: The suffix -ghach
- From: [email protected] (Ken Kohlstedt)
- Subject: Re: The suffix -ghach
- Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 19:33:14 -0800
You wrote:
>
>This is the way <I> have basically been going with -wI' and -ghach (and
I
>think it's pretty close).
>
>-wI' is simple, it's like adding "-er" to the verb, just as it says in
TKD.
>HoHwI' is HoH + wI', and means "killer". Klingon, however, is not
specific
>(and English isn't either, really) as to whether or not a HoHwI' would
be a
>person or thing which kills, or a thing that would be USED by a person
to
>kill something.
>
>
>
>
>The other question that isn't answered is whether or not verbial
prefixes could
>be used on a -ghach construction, which would make something like "you
killing
>him is bad" as simple as "qab DaHoHghach", but I don't think anyone
here would
>really say that would be correct.
>
>..Paul
>
>PS> If I confused you, oops. :)
>
>
>
If -gach makes a noun out of a verb, then one shouldn't be able to use
verbial prefixes or suffixes with the resulting construction. My
question would be are noun suffixes O.K. after -ghach?
Ken