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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] {-'e'} on {-DIch}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (SuStel)
Tue Dec 20 11:10:50 2016
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From: SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:50:46 -0500
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On 12/20/2016 9:36 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> mayqel qunenoS asked:
>>> can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
> SuStel answered:
>> I don't see why not. Ordinals are still numbers, and numbers
>> are treated grammatically as nouns.
> I quite agree, but I could find only one example of a noun suffix used with {-Dich}:
>
> qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'.
> [untranslated] (st.klingon 11/1996?)
>
> To which SuStel commented some time later (do you remember the date?):
>
> "... in answering my letter about {qep'a' wejDIch}, Marc Okrand used the phrase {qep'a' wejDIchDaq}. Now, it could be considered just a name, but it may also be possible that noun suffixes can go to the ordinal number."
December 18, 1996. Here is the archived message:
https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1996/December/msg00825.html
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