tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 08 07:21:57 1996
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Re: KBLC: some questions
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>Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 18:01:18 -0700
>From: Dave Yeung <[email protected]>
These have probably been answered already, but I'm behind on my email so
may not have seen the answers.
>wa' mu'tlheghDaq cha' <adverbials> lo'laH'a' vay'?
>i.e., {chaq bong qIppu'} "She accidentally hit him."
choyu'chugh, "HIja'" vIja'. I don't know of canon offhand, but I wouldn't
be surprised if there were.
>tlhIngan Hol vIlo'taHvIS chay' "prayer" vIjatlh? {mu'naD} vIlo'.
"mu'naD" vIpar. "prayer" is a word with a lot of meanings. In its basic
form, it refers to requests, not praises. Praise is just "naD", no need
for "mu'"; requests probably use something with tlhob.
>wa' mu'tlheghDaq cha' lengwI'mey tu'lu''a'?
>i.e., {vIchoHHa'laHbe'} "I cannot undo the change."
>Is it permissible to use both {-Ha'} and {-be'} or, for that matter, use
>a rover twice in the same verb?
choyu'chugh, "HIja'" vIja'. This time I'm pretty sure there IS canon. We
certainly have canon for two rovers in one word: pIHoHqu'vIpbe', in TKD. I
would accept this for all rovers, even the same rover twice. Well,
actually only the "true" rovers, which actually rove. I would not expect
to see -Ha' or -Qo' twice on the same verb (but -Ha'Qo' probably exists in
canon, in a negative command on a -Ha' verb).
>Some words have more than one meaning. {pIqaD} also means "we challenge
>you", and {HIja'} means "you (imp) tell me!" Is there a reason for this?
Possibly, but not necessarily. There are lots of English words that mean
more than one thing, whose reasons are coincidence or a relationship lost
in history.
~mark
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