tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 05 00:16:49 2002
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KLBC: lu- with -lu'
Some days ago I posted a message with the subject {chay' mu'meyvam lo'lu'?}
"How are these words used?". Today, seeing the subject again, it occurred to
me that maybe this should have been {chay' mu'meyvam lulo'lu'?}. But I don't
think anyone corrected me when I first posted it.
On p.39 of TKD, it says of sentences with -lu', "...the prefix {lu-}, which
normally means 'they do something to him/her', becomes 'someone/something
does something to them'."
But further down on the same page, it gives the example {naDev puqpu' tu'lu'}
"there are children around here".
Why isn't it {naDev puqpu' lutu'lu'}?
-Sengval