Re: jIqeq (I practice)

[Quvar valer <levinius@gmx.de>]

Am 25.11.2002 19:56:59, schrieb Steven Boozer <sboozer@midway.uchicago.edu>:

>Unlike English, you can't make nouns out of verbs by just adding the noun 
>suffixes to a verb.  If you don't have the noun you need, you have to 
>rethink the sentence a bit and phrase it using the verb, which we call 
>"re-casting" here on the List.  So instead of saying "for practice" using 
>the noun, use the verb and try to say the same thing:  {jIqeqmeH} "[in 
>order] for [me to] practice, in order that I practice".  Thus:

There is a noun {qeq} meaning "drill (military)"

Quvar
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