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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Usage of {HuS}
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghunchu'wI' 'utlh)
Sat Nov 26 11:51:19 2011
From: "ghunchu'wI' 'utlh" <qunchuy@alcaco.net>
To: tlhIngan-Hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CA+cwSm_TX9ucTHD5CSzhSTqr7SFTkicWk1cOhz1AtPRLjbaPzQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:50:25 -0500
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Nov 26, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has {HuS} "hang" been used in canon?
I don't believe it has. I've been watching.
> Is it intransitive ("the sword is hanging on the wall"), transitive
> ("the warrior hangs his sword on the wall"), or both?
I would prefer the "be suspended" meaning. It's easy to get the other
one by adding {-moH}.
> Does it mean "kill by suspending" (as in "the man was hanged"), simply
> "suspend" (as in "the stockings were hung from the chimney with
> care"), or either?
I wouldn't expect it to be limited to execution.
> I'm wondering whether "hangman" is {nuv HuSmeH Quj}, {nuv HuSmoHmeH
> Quj}, or something along those lines....
{HuS nuv} seems reasonable to me. Whatever the verb means, I think it
works.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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