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Re: {Hum} "be sticky"

QeS lagh ([email protected])



ghItlhpu' Voragh:

>An old question:  How is {lel} "get out, take out" different from {teq} 
>"remove"?  Unfortunately, we have canon for neither.

IMHO, {lel} describes a subset or a special case of {teq}. I'd see the 
object of {lel} as being physically inside something else (so, inside a box, 
a packet, a room) whereas {teq} could describe something on something else, 
but not necessarily inside (so, on a wall, the floor, etc).

{ngaSwI'vo' Soj yIlel} "take the food out of the container!"
{ngaSwI'vo' Soj yIteq} "take the food off/out of/away from the container!"

Savan,

QeS lagh
taghwI' pabpo' / Beginners' Grammarian


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