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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] verbs with prefix and -wI'

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Fri Nov 4 20:13:26 2011

From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>, "tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org"
 <tlhIngan-Hol@KLI.org>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 00:12:55 +0000
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I'm in pretty much the same boat as SuStel, but I think perhaps it's like with -ghach:
Adding it to a verb with a prefix is legal, but highly marked.
http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1994-09-holqed-03-3-a.txt&get=source
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From: David Trimboli [david@trimboli.name]
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 00:54
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] verbs with prefix and -wI'

On 11/4/2011 7:47 PM, Philip Newton wrote:
>
> Is it possible to add -wI' to verbs that have a prefix? Are there
> canon examples?
>
> For example, could I talk about a {munuQwI'} "something which annoys me"?

An oft-asked question. Personally, I don't think so. I think
nominalization takes priority over accord; it happens first. We've never
seen anything like it. And you can get the same result with {munuQbogh
vay'}.

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SuStel
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