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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mIl'oD veDDIr SuvwI': 17. ghojwI'pu'lI' tISaH

Felix Malmenbeck ([email protected])



From paq'batlh:

paq'raD, Canto 1, Stanza 4:

‘Iw bIQtIqvo’
toS SuvwI’ yoH
puH QaDDaq paw

The fearless warrior
Climbs out of the blood
Onto dry land.


paq'raD, Canto 11, Stanza 8:

raSDaq toS qeylIS
rewbe’pu’ qaD
‘ej mu’meyvam ja’

Kahless climbs onto the table,
Turns to the people,
And spoke these words.


paq'raD, Canto 14, Stanza 4:

molor vuQlu’
tu’taHmeH chalqach toS
qeylISvam legh neH

Molor is amused,
He climbs a watch tower
To see this Kahless.


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Combining these examples, it seems to me that perhaps the object of {toS} is the thing which one climbs. One's starting point is marked with -vo', and one's destination with -Daq. In that sense, it would resemble {ghoS} in at least some respects, but perhaps not all.
Not sure if a person who climbs cliffs for sport with no real destination would be said to {qoj toS} or {qojDaq toS}, though.

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From: Steven Boozer [[email protected]]
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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] mIl'oD veDDIr SuvwI': 17. ghojwI'pu'lI' tISaH

QeS:
> [1] We have little canon for {toS}, so I'm using it like a normal verb of
> motion: {vI-} for motion to, {jI-} for motion on (cf. HQ 7:4). {bebDaq
> jItoStaH} "I am climbing on the roof", {bebDaq vItoSlI'} "I am climbing
> ONTO the roof".

Our knowledge of how the "vertical motion" verbs is limited:

toS     climb (v)

  jItoS
  I climb. KLS

ghIr  descend (v)
Sal     ascend (v)

  SaqSub'e' muSHa'bogh pawmeH leng qeylIS HuDmey Sal ghIq ghIr
  And Kahless traveled to his beloved Saq'sub, over the mountains (PB)

  HuDmeyvo' ghIr chaH
  Over the hills, they came. (PB)

pum     fall (v)

  bIpum                 You fall. KLS

  pumDI' 'etlh  when the blade falls (st.k 11/05/99)
  pumDI' DaS    when the boot falls (st.k 11/05/99)
  pumDI' 'obmaQ         when the ax falls (st.k 11/05/99)
  pumDI' nagh   when the stone falls (st.k 11/05/99)
  pumDI' rutlh  when the wheel falls (st.k 11/05/99)


Unfortunately, the two examples from paq'batlh don't address QeS's concerns.


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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