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Re: "Numeric" nouns?

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: "Numeric" nouns?
• Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 15:53:21 -0500
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>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}

Correction:  "unattested separately as nouns..."

>shows up again in the common mineral {beqpuj} *bekpuj*.
>
>Can anyone think of other examples?



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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