[86995] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Question about -wI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Mon Nov 23 16:21:15 2009
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:19:30 -0500
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
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Christopher Doty wrote:
> 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?
No, {-wI'} is only a verb suffix. There are some complex nouns that
*look* like they're simple nouns plus {-wI'}, but we can't pull them
apart and generalize new words or rules from them; we have to suppose
that they're leftovers from Old Klingon, or some such, and just treat
them as distinct complex nouns. See also TKD 3.2.2.
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