tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Nov 15 20:38:21 1996

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Re: RE: KLBC a phrase about Honor

ja' charghwI':
>{muvwI'} is already a noun before it gains a relationship with
>{tuj}. This tells us nothing about the transitivity of {muv}.
>I can't find any canon use of {muv} as a verb whatsoever. Until
>proven wrong, however, I do intend to use it transitively.

I think a tool is truly useful only if it can act on something; that was
why I considered the {tuj muvwI'} entry as evidence for a transitive {muv}.
But of course I don't know whether a thermo-suture is supposed to join two
things together or if the thermo-suture itself is supposed to join with
something, so even if I do use it with an object, this doesn't tell me if
I can apply it to *two* objects that I want to stick together.

There's also the dictionary entry {muvmoH} "recruit" to look at, from
which I infer that {muv} does *not* mean to combine things, but instead
means to become part of something.

-- ghunchu'wI'

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