[1542] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Two More Comments on +Du' +mey
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Sep 13 20:43:14 1993
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
k)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@village.boston.ma.us>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 18:51:26 EDT
In-Reply-To: <93Sep4.130137pdt.12096@alpha.xerox.com>; from "Ken_Beesley.PARC@x
erox.com" at Sep 4, 93 1:00 pm
Ken_Beesley.PARC@xerox.com says:
: [David Sturm:]
: >>And even worse, doesn't +Du' seem vaguely suggestive of *DU*al?
: Also, +mey isn't that far from more, in German, *MEH*r.<<
And could >pu'< possibly be from PlUral?
:
: I have similarly suggested that the -Daq suffix might be an
: abbreviation/corruption of Dative-Locative, the usual linguistic terms for su
ch
: a case ending.
Perhaps; here's another idea. Turkish uses suffixes for many purposes, as does
tlhH (tlhingan Hol). The "locative" suffix in Turkish is usually given as
"-de", but it becomes "-da" after back vowels: ev-de "in the house", oda-da "in
the room". I've been trying to learn Turkish lately, and >Daq< comes to mind
every time.
:
: Ken Beesley
:
:
Qapla' Qichqengwi'vo'.
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