tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 19 14:26:18 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: nalqaD (noun)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: nalqaD (noun)
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:26:05 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, ja':
>{nalqaD} was introduced on KCD where Okrand says, "{nal} is not used as a
>word on its own, although it is also found in {be'nal} "wife" and {loDnal}
>"husband". Technically, it is a bound morpheme, like English '(o)logy'."
>(This may be a paraphrase; I've never actually heard KCD myself.)
Nor have I; I didn't know that Okrand had already spoken about this. Very
interesting.
The fact that {nal} appears as both the first and the second half of these
compound nouns (unlike "-(o)logy") leads me to think that it wasn't always a
bound morpheme, although now it definitely is - like *{jon} "engineering",
which I also suspect used not to be bound.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
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