[84609] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: "Numeric" nouns?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com)
Tue May 6 17:56:37 2008
From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 17:55:26 EDT
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
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In a message dated 5/6/2008 15:54:45 PM Central Daylight Time,
sboozer@uchicago.edu writes:
> >Voragh:
> > >>I wouldn't include the nouns {cha'puj} and {cha'pujqut} with the examples
> > >>of the number {cha'}. But it is an example of how numbers can combine to
> > >>form compound nouns.
> >
> >Another example is {loSpev} "quadrotriticale".
> >
> >Interesting that they're both "scientific" sounding names. Interesting too
> >that the other (second) morpheme in these - *{puj} (some sort of mineral?)
> >and *{pev} (lobe [of grain]?) - are unattested separately, though *{puj}
>
> Correction: "unattested separately as nouns..."
>
{loSpev} and {cha'puj} are only "scientific"-sounding nouns in English. They
sound pretty ordinary to me in Klingon.
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