tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 26 00:55:16 1997
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Re: {H}mo' bangwI' vInaD...
- From: Ivan A Derzhanski <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: {H}mo' bangwI' vInaD...
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:59:03 -0800
- Organization: Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science
- References: <[email protected]>
{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
--
"reH Sov yInej 'ej Dap yImuS, <dOstI bA mardom-e dAnA nEkO-st,
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]>
H: cplx Iztok bl 91, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria <http://www.math.acad.bg/~iad/>
W: Dept for Math Lx, Inst for Maths & CompSci, Bulg Acad of Sciences