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Re: {H}mo' bangwI' vInaD...



{XvaD Y je'} vIlo'taHvIS meqmey'e' vIqelbogh QIjchu'ta'mo' ~mark,
vItlho'.  rurchuqba' yabmey nIv.

Qum Voragh:

> To add fuel to the fire, don't forget about the definitions Okrand is
> supplying to MSN for the featured word-of-the-day.
> 
> je'  feed
> "Verb, to consume a substance, or to supply someone with nourishment."
> (MSN definition)

nuqjatlh?  `To consume a substance'?!

Qu'vatlh!  I thought that the very reason for which MO glossed {je'}
as `feed (someone else)' rather than just `feed' was to prevent it
from being used intransitively, as _feed_ can in English.  You know,
as in `We can begin to feed' --

  <Do'Ha' naDev pagh Hurgh wItu',>
   ja' Qa' 'ej pe'vIl Hagh,
  <'ej HIq wIHutlhmo', nuQmoH ghu':
   'uQ'a'vaD QaQ wornagh --
   SujeSrupchugh, pIpyuSoypu',
   maje''egh 'e' wItagh.>

(Same book, 3 chapters back.)

--'Iwvan

-- 
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 jagh val qaq law' jup QIp qaq puS"     do^sman-e dAnA beh az nAdAn dOst>
                 (Sheikh Muslihuddin Abu Muhammad Abdullah Saadi Shirazi)
Ivan A Derzhanski                             <[email protected]>
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