tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jun 12 20:45:28 1997
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Re: BG...Noun construction
Dennis (& Kim) Orosz writes:
>Is the rule then that wI' ought only to be used for "one who does/is"?
On a verb, yes. That's what the Type 9 verb suffix {-wI'} means.
But the Type 4 noun suffix {-wI'} means "my (noun capable of speech)".
{SuS'a'} is a noun; {SuS'a'wI'} can only mean "my great wind" and it
indicates that the wind can speak.
Your confusion seems to come from the explanation accompanying the word
{tIjwI'ghom} on page 20 of TKD. It's saying that a verb with the verb
suffix {-wI'} on it becomes a noun and can be used in compounds, not
that {-wI'} "one who does" alone can be used that way.
-- ghunchu'wI'