tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Nov 23 16:56:25 2009
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Re: Question about -wI'
- From: "Mark J. Reed" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Question about -wI'
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:55:24 -0500
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:19 PM, David Trimboli <[email protected]> wrote:
> Christopher Doty wrote:
>> Can -wI' go on nouns? Or does this mean that, as with many Klingon
>> words, the noun Hergh is identical to a verb with roughly the same
>> meaning, "administer medicine," and the verb Hergh is simply missing
>> from the dictionary?
>
> No, {-wI'} is only a verb suffix.
that happens to be homphonous with a noun suffix for possession, as
Krenath noted.
> There are some complex nouns that *look* like they're simple nouns plus {-wI'}
Another example is {De'wI'} "computer", which looks like "data-er".
One might infer the existence of a verb *{De'} "to process (data)" or
some such, but it's unattested.
> but we can't pull them apart and generalize new words or rules from them
At least, not and stay within the realm of canonical tlhIngan Hol.
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Mark J. Reed <[email protected]>
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