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Re: choH vs. choHmoH

Andrà MÃller ([email protected])



2010/1/29 David Trimboli <[email protected]>
>
> If the interpretation were correct, it would look like this:
>
>    He yIchoH
>    Change the course!
>
>    He yIchoHmoH
>    Be the cause of you changing the course!
>
>
Hmm, shouldn't that sentence translate rather as "Let the course change
it/sth.!"? The verb's not reflexive, so the subject/causer cannot be the
object here. If {choH} means change (the transitive verb), then "choHmoH"
would mean "cause sth. to change sth.", thus, in {He yIchoHmoH} you order
the course itself to change something else.

Greetings,
- André





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