tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 25 09:40:21 2007
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Re: qechmey
Doq wrote:
>If it were a number word, you probably would omit the plural suffix
>on {waq}. But it is not obviously a number word. It's likely just a
>noun, usually used by itself with context explaining what it is a
>pair of.
Speaking of unexpected nouns, the words for right and left are nouns not
qualities: {nIH} "right (side)" and {poS} "left (side)". To say "my right
shoe", I supposed you'd have to use a noun-noun phrase: {nIHwIj waq} "my
right-side's shoe" or maybe {nIH waqwIj} "my right-side-shoe". To refer to
the right side OF the shoe, I would say {waqwIj nIH} "my shoe's right-side".
We have similar nouns for the exterior top and bottom (side):
The word for "top" is {yor}. This refers to the top side or top
face of an object, such as the top of a box or the top of a table
or even the top of one's head ... The word for "bottom", the
counterpart of {yor}, is {pIrmuS}. This word refers to the underside
of something, not the interior bottom... [HQ 8.3]
While we're on the topic of shoes, we also have the body parts {mov} "top
of foot", {bem} "sole (of foot)", {yaD} "toe" and {va'nuch} "heel" which
MIGHT be extended to the corresponding area of a shoe as well (as they are
in English). The only word I know of specifically referring to part of a
shoe/boot is {DaSpu'} "boot spike".
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Voragh
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