[Tlhingan-hol] wojmoHwI' yupma'

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Mon Dec 10 13:47:44 PST 2012


quljIb:
>>> chorgh ram maw' tIv law' wa' jaj tIv puS.

De'vID:
>> "Eight crazy nights are more {tIv} than one day."  I don't quite get
>> this because {tIv} "enjoy" is not a "quality" verb.  Presumably you
>> intend something meaning "be enjoyable".  Maybe {belmoH}?  I'm not
>> sure that works in a {law'}/{puS} construction though.

SuStel:
> {belmoH} isn't a verb of quality either. I don't know what the sentence is
> supposed to mean, but some related verbs that DO work are {QaQ} "be happy,"
> {Dun} "be wonderful," and {pov} "be excellent."

You're right that {belmoH} can't go into the X slot in the
{law'}/{puS} construction.  I was thinking of {belmoH} as a verb
meaning "be pleasurable" in the way that {HeghmoH} is "be fatal", but
it's not a verb of quality in the grammatical sense required for the
construction.

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De'vID



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