[86992] in tlhIngan-Hol
Question about -wI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Mon Nov 23 16:08:25 2009
From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:06:57 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
I was just playing with the new iPhone Klingon app (very cool, btw, if
you haven't checked it out) and came across a question...
The dictionary lists Hergh as a noun meaning medicine, and HerghwI' as
a noun meaning hypo (I assume in this context that "hypo" means
hypospray or hypodermic needle). So, my question:
Can -wI' go on nouns? Or does this mean that, as with many Klingon
words, the noun Hergh is identical to a verb with roughly the same
meaning, "administer medicine," and the verb Hergh is simply missing
from the dictionary?
Chris
