[Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'vatlh wa'maH Soch: <'uQ>

[ghunchu'wI' 'utlh]

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:55 AM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
> QI' HIp yIvbeH tuQtaH. mongDechDaq *veS* Degh,
> Sogh Degh je lucha'lu'.

qaH'eng HIp tuQ Hota'ro' 'e' vISIv.

> "yIvbeHvam munojta' parmaqqaywI'."

va, DaH latlh vISIvchoH.

> Heghlaw'taHvIS be' numpu' vajar.

wanI' vIqawlaw'. ngugh QI' ta choHlI' vajar 'e' Del lut, 'ach choH'e' Delbe'.

> "...qaSpu'DI' wa' rep naDev qaSuv! betleHlIj yISuq!"

Instead of {qaSpu'DI' wa' rep}, what do you think about {wa' rep pIq}?
I assume he's setting a time for the duel, not specifying a waiting
period.

If he's saying "get your betleH", it implies that he thinks ghutar has
one nearby and just needs to retrieve it. {Suq} would be a good verb
if he didn't own one and needed to acquire one somehow, but in that
case it would probably be {betleH yISuq} without the possessive
suffix. I think {yIr} "gather" might be marginally better, though I
don't know that it applies properly to a single weapon.

-- ghunchu'wI'