tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 29 05:31:34 2006
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Re: {Qong} and other unattested nouns
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: {Qong} and other unattested nouns
- Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:31:12 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>Maybe not that there's more of an action, but that sleep as a noun
>references
>action anyway.
That sounds reasonable; however, there's a noun form {yIn} which references
an action that is similar to sleep in the agency of the subject. The problem
is that we don't know what a noun {Qong} might mean. It might mean "a period
of time during which you sleep" - as in the English "I'm going in for a
short sleep".
>Or "having sleep" is incorrect for it's slept, because it's a past tense
>verb.
I'm not quite sure what you're arguing here. Can you clarify?
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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