[87003] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Question about -wI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Doty)
Mon Nov 23 16:55:31 2009
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From: Christopher Doty <suomichris@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:43 -0800
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
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On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:46, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> {HerghwI'} may also be a contraction of the longer {Hergh QaywI'} "pneumatic hypo" or "thing which transfers medicine" (HQ 1.3:9). Perhaps this is medical slang for a commonly used device which one may need to ask for quickly.
Ya, I quite like this analysis as a shortened form, also proposed by
ghunchu'wI'.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 13:31, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <qunchuy@alcaco.net> wrote:
> mu'ghom.
=dictionary/word list?
> pagh ngoQ chav.
In what way? If I want to know how to say that I administer medicine
or treat someone, I wanted to know if this was a verb I could use.
