tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Sep 04 21:48:58 1997
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Re: rIghwI'mey vIHoH
- From: Qov <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: rIghwI'mey vIHoH
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 21:47:39 -0700 (PDT)
At 08:11 PM 9/4/97 -0700, qoror wrote:
>ghItlh Qov
>>> 'ach HIlugh
>>"be right me"
>>To say "cause me to be correct" -- i.e. "correct me" -- add {-moH}.
>>{HIlughmoH}
>I think this was using {lugh} as the transitive form of "correct."
It was. And it was wrong. {lugh} means 'be right' or 'be correct'.
Compare with {SuD} "be green, blue, yellow." Marc doesn't repeat the "be"
in multiple shades of the same definition of stative verbs.
Qov ([email protected])
Beginners' Grammarian