tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Sep 03 10:30:07 2002
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Re: tlhe' - trans or intrans
DloraH:
>mu'tlhegh lugh yIngu':
>
>* moQ vItlhe'
>* moQ vItlhe'moH
>
>DoS ghaj'a' [tlhe'] mu'?
ghunchu'wI':
> vIt wISovbe'law'.
Do'Ha' [tlhe'] wot vIlo'pu'be' Okrand.
{tlhe'} "turn" probably works like {jIr} "rotate, twirl" and {DIng}
"spin". Although {DIng} hasn't appeared in canon, {jIrmoH} "twirl
bat'leth, cause bat'leth to rotate" appears in KGT (p.59):
To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand
to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right to left)
is {baQ}.
Now, minimalists would argue that, based on this one sentence, {jIrmoH} is
martial arts jargon; that is, it *only* applies to swordplay - and
specifically the bat'leth at that! - but I don't think so. Okrand doesn't
actually say this in so many words, and he was not shy about saying so
about other words in KGT.
Note, that if we didn't have {jIrmoH} in KGT, we wouldn't know whether
{jIr} is transitive either, as its English glosses are also ambiguous.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons