tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Aug 06 11:58:05 1997

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Re: New Words!!!



On Stardate 97597.0 muHwI' wrote:

> > nay'vam DawaHpu''a'?  yIvIt! 
> 
> this dish you-it be expensive? Tell the truth! 
> mu'tlhegh wa' yImugh.

This is excerpted from a message Marc Okrand sent to the MSN bulletin board.

v-----v
{wagh} is "be expensive."  

{waH} means "try out, use (experimentally)" and it is also the word used
for "taste" in the sense of trying out food to see if it's prepared
properly or to find out if you like it.
^-----^

-- 
SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
Stardate 97598.3


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