tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 20 15:52:40 2003
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Re: qatlh vay' vInuQ :)
ja' SuStel:
>You have misremembered. When the dictionary shows verb+suffix, the standard
>interpretation is that it's verb+suffix, not a distinct verb. /lo'laH/ was
>the most obvious EXCEPTION. I'm not sure if Okrand ever stated outright the
>status of /ja'chuq/; I seem to remember that he did, but it wasn't in the
>same post as the others.
He never clarified it in a post, but he didn't have to. It never needed
clarification beyond what he wrote in TKD. Page 65:
(The verb is made up of {ja'} "tell", {-chuq} "each other";
thus, "confer" is "tell each other".)
>I am convinced that /ja'chuq/ is simply /ja'+chuq/, and that Okrand himself
>said this somewhere.
It's been explicit since TKD was written.
-- ghunchu'wI'