tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 12 05:07:46 1997
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RE: BG...Noun construction
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: BG...Noun construction
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 97 03:50:38 UT
Hi! This is SuStel, the BG. If you want to flag me for help, please use the
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[email protected] on behalf of Dennis&Kim Orosz wrote:
> Hegh SuS'a'wI
> which I'm hoping could/would be translated as "Death Wind" but obviously
> ain't sure of. I break it out as Strong wind which does/causes Death or
> at least thats what I'm trying to do.
{-wI'} meaning "thing which does, thing which is" is a *verb* suffix.
(There's a noun suffix {-wI'}, but this is a possessive suffix, and totally
unrelated.) You cannot put verb suffixes on nouns.
{Hegh SuS'a'} does indeed mean "great wind of death." It also means "the
great wind dies."
If you want "causes death," then you've got a couple of options. The easiest
is to use the verb {HoH}: {HoHbogh SuS'a'} "great wind which kills." (See TKD
6.2.3 on how to use {-bogh} and relative clauses.)
Another possibility, a little more convoluted, would be {HeghmoHbogh SuS'a'}
"great wind which causes (something) to die."
By the way, {HeghSuS} "death-wind" sounds a lot like "Jesus" in its Spanish
pronunciation!
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SuStel
Beginners' Grammarian
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