tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 24 17:12:07 2002
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Re: chuvmey ("leftovers")
Quvar wrote:
>Am 23.07.2002 22:51:30, schrieb Voragh:
> >chuvmey leftovers (n.)
> >"If, for some reason, the {qagh} cannot be consumed before they all die,
> >... this is a common way to serve leftovers." (KGT:87)
>
>This is very interesting, but it's about leftovers, not about {chuvmey}.
Agreed. It tells us nothing as to whether the singular noun {chuv} is used
in Klingon.
> >Klingon? AFAIK it isn't in (American) English.
>
>My english-german dictioanry says:
> "leftover I adj. ... II noun ..."
>nothing about plural or singular.
You need a better dictionary, one with detailed usage notes and example
sentences. "Leftovers" is like those other English words which only occur
in the plural: "pants", "britches", "trousers", "scissors", etc. No-one
says "a pant", "a britch", "a trouser", or "a scissor". (You can say,
however, "trouser pocket" [a component part of trousers], but not a "pant
pocket" or a "britch pocket". Go figure.)
> >Okrand did, as an adjective (or is it a participle in English?): {Soj chuv}
>
>I read this like an adjective (a {wot}) "food (be) leftover"
>Just lika any other adj./wot: Soj bIr "food (be) cold"
I meant, is "leftover" a participle *in English*? I.e. "which has been
left over" (e.g. from yesterday's supper).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons