tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 25 18:01:11 1997
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Re: -moH
|jIHvaD jang voragh
|>tlhob qoror:
|>: Does anyone see anything wrong with using a verb with "-moH" statively?
|>
|>For example?
|
|I've been wondering about the passage from TKD: SeymoH QeH.
|
|qoror
Sey "be excited"
SeymoH "excite (someone)"
SeymoH QeH. "Anger excites."
Literally, "Anger makes someone excited." For stylistic reasons (this is a
general truth for Klingons), the object is not mentioned--which is what
confused you.
Looking up the noun QeH, I can see that -moH will also work with the
intransitive verb QeH "be angry" -> *QeHmoH "anger (someone), enrage
(someone)" thus making it transitive. A very useful suffix to remember.
-- Voragh