[Tlhingan-hol] Eurotalk - New Words - Shopping

[Robyn Stewart]

At 07:56 03/11/2011, you wrote:
> >>> comb - jIb Ho'Du'
>
>Qov:
> >> This makes me sad because I like to have the extra clarity of using
> >> -mey when using a body part name to describe a non body part and it
> >> looks like I'm wrong.
>
>qe'San:
> > Possibly as this is a descriptive usage it's the way to go and as -mey
> > on body parts implies all over the place you wouldn't want someone to
> > think you wanted to decorate your hair with teeth you'd knocked out of
> > an enemy ;-)
>
>Note Okrand's comment on {nevDagh} "type of pot with handles (used 
>for food preparation)" in KGT:
>
>KGT 97:  The smaller {nevDagh} is characterized by its V-shaped 
>handles, termed {DeSqIvDu'} ("elbows"; note the {-Du'}, the plural 
>suffix for body parts is used here even though the handles are not 
>literally body parts).

Yeah, but that was one and he pointed it out, so maybe it was an 
anomaly just for that pot, but now it's a pattern. I am probably also 
using plurals incorrectly when I say things like <nach DuQwI'Du'> for 
-- well you know, because I used the body parts suffix. Would you 
have had I not?