tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue May 06 13:46:19 2008
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"Numeric" nouns?
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: "Numeric" nouns?
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:45:14 -0500
lay'tel SIvten:
> > poster BoP {choH lISbogh Hap'e': cha'pujqut} Reaction Moderating
> Element - Crystalline Dilithium
Voragh:
>>I wouldn't include the nouns {cha'puj} and {cha'pujqut} with the examples
>>of the number {cha'}. But it is an example of how numbers can combine to
>>form compound nouns.
Another example is {loSpev} "quadrotriticale".
Interesting that they're both "scientific" sounding names. Interesting too
that the other (second) morpheme in these - *{puj} (some sort of mineral?)
and *{pev} (lobe [of grain]?) - are unattested separately, though *{puj}
shows up again in the common mineral {beqpuj} *bekpuj*.
Can anyone think of other examples?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons