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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tera' na'ran wIb

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Mon Feb 27 05:29:02 2012

From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer@web.de>, "tlhingan-hol@kli.org"
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:37:53 +0000
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It's not unimaginable that a noun+adjective construction should become a set phrase and treated as a noun. However, I doubt that's the case here; the phrase appears to be aimed at describing lemons to a Klingon who's never seen or tasted one.

tlhIngan 1: *lemon* nuq?
tlhIngan 2: tera' na'ran[Hey] wIb 'oH/rur.

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From: Lieven Litaer [lieven.litaer@web.de]
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 18:26
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tera' na'ran wIb

Am 26.02.2012 17:23, schrieb De'vID jonpIn:
> Phil Reynolds:
>  > What is the correct way to pluralise these? I'd guess, in the absence of
>  > any other information, the na'ran should become na'ranmey, but I'm
> not sure.
>
> latlh DuH tu'lu''a'?
> Is there any other way?

Maybe Phil regards {na'ran wIb} as one word, and the plural might be
*na'ranwIbmey*. But it is clear that we have a noun with an adjectivally
used verb, so it's unquestionably {tera' na'ranmey wIb}.

Lieven.

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