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Re: Back scratcher?

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



Voragh:
> > As for "itch", I think the best we can do is {'oy'} "ache,
> > hurt, be sore" -- {loQ 'oy'}:

ter'eS:
>How about {qotlh} 'to tickle'?  An itch feels to me
>like a kind of tickling sensation.

Oy, I like!

>Of course, we have the usual problem of whether
>{qotlh} is transitive or intransitive:

We know it's transitive:

   cheqotlhchugh maHaghbe''a'
   Tickle us, do we not laugh? TKW

   qaqotlh
   I tickle you. KLS

>   ?{DubwIj qotlh vay'} "Something tickles my back."
>   ?{qotlh DubwIj} "my back tickles (i.e. has a tickle)"
>
>I'd think the first is more likely, but I've been wrong before!

We have an example of how this type of verb works with body parts using 
{mu-} "he/she/it/they [do something to] me":

   mu'aw' mInDu'wIj
   My eyes sting [me]. CK

So, {muqotlh DubwIj} "my back tickles (me)".  {'aw'} "sting" is another 
good choice, depending on how bad the itching is.



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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