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Re: no'



ja' Voragh:
>Uninformative, but here's Okrand's commentary:
>
>  "{yIquvmoH}, 'Honor them!' (actually, this is 'Honor him/her!'; the
>   inherently plural noun {no'}, ancestors, takes a singular pronoun)"
>   (KGT p.178)

It's not uninformative.  It gives a translation using "him/her" instead of
"it", clearly implying that {no'} is people.

-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh




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