tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 01 13:34:43 1996
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Re: New words in HolQeD 5.1
- From: [email protected]
- Subject: Re: New words in HolQeD 5.1
- Date: Wed, 01 May 96 16:27:12 EST
ghunchu'wI' wrote:
>>The thing is, we don't have a cannon example of a series of nouns (NOT
>>compound
>>nouns) meaning anything but what the individual words mean.
>
>Hah! Sure we do -- I'm kind of sensitive to these examples.
Okay you got me. You'd think I'd have learned that I must read the entire TKD
before making generalizations. I was just looking at series where the first
word was place name. (ie Denebian, Orgonian, etc.)
>We have {Hergh QaywI'} "pneumatic hypo" -- the words are not equivalent at all.
Well yes and no. That translates as 'medicine transferor' and that's what it
is. But I understand your point.
>There's {woj choHwI'} "reactor" also.
Same thing, it's a 'radiation changer'. Now I'm no nuclear scientist, but isn't
that what reactors do?
But lets look at the patterns. Those examples are both <wI'> nouns. And those
funky <wI'> nouns always seem to be morphing into something else. {{;-)
r'Hul