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Re: "Numeric" nouns?

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: "Numeric" nouns?
• Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:55:26 EDT

In a message dated 5/6/2008 15:54:45 PM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> >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..."
> 

{loSpev} and {cha'puj} are only "scientific"-sounding nouns in English.  They 
sound pretty ordinary to me in Klingon.

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