[110773] in tlhIngan-Hol

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post

Re: [tlhIngan Hol] DIl

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Aug 30 10:00:50 2017

X-Original-To: tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:00:45 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4f97b347-181a-dfc7-523e-f985c5428445@gmx.de>
Reply-To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org

Object of {DIl}  implied:

  DaH yIDIl 
  Pay now! TKD

N.B. Since the prefix is {yI-} this could also be translated as "Pay for it now!" 

  bIDIlbe'chugh vaj bIHegh 
  Pay or die! TKD

  vergh 'ach DIlnISbe' 
  Free parking. MKE

Object of {DIl} stated:

  Dochvetlh DIlmeH Huch 'ar DaneH 
  How much do you want for that? TKD

  Soj yIDIl! 
  Pay for the food! KGT

  HoSHal ghajchugh vay', mI' naghmey tIronmoH. wa'maHlogh boq'egh
    mI' naghmey;  chen qav'ap.  ghajwI'vaD qav'ap yIDIl. 
  If [energy source is] owned, throw dice and pay owner a total ten
    times amount shown. MKE

  Duj ghajchugh vay', cha'logh boq'egh qav'ap motlh;  chen qav'ap le'.
    ghajwI'vaD qav'ap le' yIDIl. 
  If [ship is] owned, pay owner twice the rental to which they are
    otherwise entitled. MKE

--Voragh

-----Original Message-----
From: Lieven

Am 30.08.2017 um 15:42 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
> Can we write {jIDIl} for "I pay"?  Or {DIl 'Iv ?} for "who will pay?" ?

Sure.

> Or since the translation of {DIl} is given as "pay for", it always 
> needs to have an object ?

No, this addition is added to make clear that it can take an object.
See the example from the tapes: {DaH yIDIl} "Pay now!" and the free parking field on Monopoly, I think it was {DIlnISbe'}.

--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
_______________________________________________
tlhIngan-Hol mailing list
tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org
http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org

home help back first fref pref prev next nref lref last post