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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] My list of 19 new words revisited
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Fri Jul 28 01:33:04 2017
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Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:33:01 +0200
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SuStel wrote:
>
> >I've seen *ghep* used as "age", backformated from the canon words
> *peHghep*
> >"Age of Inclusion" and *nenghep* "Age of Ascension".
Am 28.07.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Jesse Manoogian:
> Wouldn't this be "age" in the sense of era, rather than the count of
> years since a person's birth, though?
No certainly not, since these words really refer to an event of a
person. Yet we don't know if the part ghep really refers to the age in
numbers.
If someone would say {ghepDaj yIngu'} "Identify his age", the answer
could be very unclear like {nenghepDaj SIchta'} "He has reached his age
of Ascension". You still don't know how old he is.
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Lieven L. Litaer
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