[85553] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: "She Grows (Medicinal) Herbs"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fiat Knox)
Wed May 27 17:55:25 2009
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:53:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: Fiat Knox <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
No, if I'd said "firewood," I'd have used a term more like "nInvaD tI."
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--- On Wed, 27/5/09, ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
> From: ghunchu'wI' <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
> Subject: Re: "She Grows (Medicinal) Herbs"
> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
> Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 10:39 PM
> On May 27, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Steven
> Boozer wrote:
>
> >> vutmeH tI wIj - (She) farms (vegetation for
> cooking) herbs (spices?)
> >
> > I like this one for "spices".
>
> jIQoch. I see no hint that "vegetation for cooking"
> means something
> added to improve the taste of food. It could just as
> easily refer to
> a wrapper, either edible (like grape leaves) or not (e.g.
> corn
> husks), and the first thing that comes to my mind is
> actually fuel
> for heating. If you want to talk about spices, I
> think {tlhorgh} is
> a much better word to employ than is {vut}.
>
> -- ghunchu'wI'
>
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