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Re: Krankor's article

ter'eS wrote:
:But I don't follow the use of {-vo'}.  In TKD, p. 28, it says "This suffix
:is similar to {-Daq} but is used only when action is in a direction away
:from the noun suffixed with {-vo'}."  It seems to me that this list has
:always held to the idea that {-vo'} is used only to express motion.  Has
:this changed?  The Captain is clearly using {-vo'} as some kind of partitive
:suffix ('a subset out of a fuller set'), but I thought the absence of such a
:suffix was the whole reason for d'Armond's original article and Krankor's
:response.  So, what gives?  How do the pabpo'wI'pu' like this idea?

Good point. Like Krankor, I've often wondered if we could do the same thing,
but I could find no attestations of -vo' used in a partitive sense, only
spatial. Here is everything I have:

pa'vo' yIjaH 
 Leave the room!  TKD
naDevvo' ylghoS 
 Go away!  TKD
pa'vo' pagh leghlu' 
 The room has no view.  CK
naDevvo' jIleghlaHchu'be' 
 I can't see well from here.  CK
chaq SoHvo' vay' vIje' vIneH 
 [Maybe I'd like to buy something from you. (line uncertain)]  PK
naDevvo' vaS'a'Daq majaHlaH'a' 
 Can we get to the Great Hall from here?  PK
HoD, yo' SeHyaH nIvvo' potlh De' wIHevtaH 
 Captain, new data, hostages on Nimbus III. (subtitle)
 (N.B. this transcription is VERY uncertain! Cf. "Captain, we are receiving
a priority 
 message from [Fleet] Operations Command." from the novel.) ST5
jav Hogh maH Qo'noSvo' 
 We am... Six weeks out of... Kronos. (sic!)  ST6
may'meyDajvo' Haw'be' tlhIngan 
 A Klingon does not run away from his battles.  TKW
juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS tlhInganpu' 
 During the (aggresive) expansion of the Klingon people from their homeworld
of Kronos 
 into space... SP1


-- Voragh

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