tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jul 20 15:19:04 2007
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Re: using {Hoch} (was Re: Wool? In tlhIngan Hol?)
ghunchu'wI':
>Partitive: If you're talking about "all of" a single thing, it looks
>like the {Hoch} comes second. The {HochHom} example is the best
>evidence I know of to support that interpretation. If you can
>replace the word "all" by "entirety", do it that way: {SuvwI' Hoch}
>"the entirety of the warrior", "the warrior's all".
ghunchu'wI' is spot on WRT how {Hoch} works, although his example {SuvwI'
Hoch}, though grammatical, sounds a bit odd. Perhaps a more common way to
say this would be {SuvwI' naQ} "an entire warrior" using the quality {naQ}
"be full, be whole, be entire". We have one example of {naQ} from the BoP
Poster:
cha' choQmey naQ tu'lu' 'ej tep choQ bIngDaq lo' law' bID choQ tu'lu'
2 Full Decks and a Half Utility Deck under the Cargo Deck (KBoP)
Note that here a full(-length) deck {choQ naQ} is compared with a half deck
{bID choQ}. This makes sense if you've seen the poster.
Finally there is another noun {Dol} "entity, a whole", used once in canon:
wa' Dol nIvDaq matay'DI' maQap
We succeed together in a greater whole. (TKW p.209)
["Do you know why we are so strong? Because we are a unit. Each
of us is part of a greater whole." (Kor, TOS "Errand of Mercy")]
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons