[Tlhingan-hol] "I have kept my word of honor"
ghunchu'wI' 'utlh
qunchuy at alcaco.net
Wed Jul 11 20:46:24 PDT 2012
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca> wrote:
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>> So we've seen that {pab} can take various objects: {lurDech} "tradition", {ghob} "ethics, virtue", {'Ip} "oath", and {nab} "plan". It can also be used without an expressed object, as in the idiom/phrase {lay' 'ej batlh pab} "keep one's word of honor".
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> Unless the object is batlh. Makes sense as batlh is analogous to ghob.
The {paq'batlh} line that sparked this thread contains the phrase
{batlh jIpabta'}.
-- ghunchu'wI'
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