tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 13 19:33:42 2006
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Re: easy question
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: easy question
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 13:33:28 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Stephen Carter, ja':
>Technically, though, I don't think we can call {DoS}/{ray'} a case of
>suppletion unless we know for a fact that the two words aren't
>cognate. They certainly *look* different, but because we don't know
>the details of their etymologies, we can't say for certain that
>they're an example of suppletion.
We can never say that for certain, due to the uncertain nature of historical
linguistics. Nevertheless, based upon my own preliminary etymological work
with Klingon, the ideas brought forward by others on this list in the past,
and the article on Proto-Klingon phonology written by Alan Wechsler (I
think) in HolQeD 1:1, I strongly believe that {DoS} and {ray'} are not
cognate, and I have no problem with referring to this as suppletion even at
this preliminary stage.
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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