tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 06 20:51:16 1997
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Re: family suffixes
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: family suffixes
- Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 23:53:29 -0400 ()
- Priority: NORMAL
On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 08:53:24 -0700 (PDT) Steven Boozer
<[email protected]> wrote:
> : We already have a tlhIngan Hol word for "marriage": {tlhogh}.
> :
> : I have a question, though. I remember seeing somewhere the phrase {ngoS
> : tlhogh} to mutually declare a divorce. Where was that? I cannot find anyone
> : else who remembers the phrase.
>
> *ngoS tlhogh "This marriage is dissolved." [The House of Quark]
{ngoS} means "dissolve", not "be dissolved". pImba'.
> According to my notes peHruS, you once suggested that we might turn the verb
> phrase around and use *tlhogh ngoS for "divorce".
wejpuH.
> : peHruS
>
> -- Voragh
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