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Re: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jan 12 16:03:14 2010

From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A60113A1A56605@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:01:27 +0000
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On 12 Jan 2010, at 20:24, Steven Boozer wrote:

> Voragh:
>>>> Over the weekend I began compiling a list of hypothetical
>>>> (reconstructed) vocabulary, chiefly from compound nouns.
> Michael Everson:
>>> Not that I am in a position to propose anything, but I've always  
>>> though
>>> that "lIl" would be an excellent word for "difficult to discern;  
>>> illegible".
>
> majha'!  vIparha'qu'!!

I'm afraid I can't parse this. What do you mean by "ha'"?

Good ha'! I dislike it a lot ha'!

I thought it might be -Ha' 'undo', thus:

Ungood! I undislike it a lot!

But that doesn't make sense to me.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/





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