[Tlhingan-hol] {warjun} {tlher} je

[André Müller]

Okay, but these two are bimorphemic, consisting of two parts, like
derivations or compounds. There are much more polysyllabic verbs of that
kind ({choptaH}, {ghomHa'}, {ghojmoH}, {boqHa''egh} etc., there are quite a
lot). More interesting are the bisyllabic verbs that cannot be derived from
monosyllabic morphemes, I found:

{ghIpDIj} = to court-martial
{nughI'} = to twist one's knuckle into someone's head
{He'So'} = to stink (while the first part means "to smell", the second part
doesn't logically seem to be derivable from {So'} "to hide")

These are all I could find. I might have missed one or two, though.

This also reminds me of Thai, a language in which almost all native
monomorphemic verbs and adjectives are also monosyllabic, while there are
many monomorphemic polysyllabic nouns. A polysyllabic verb that cannot be
split into two meaningful components is usually an indicator for being
borrowed from some other language like Pali, Khmer or Sanskrit, or having
undergone a phonetic process which splitted a consonant cluster up by
inserting an epenthetic vowel and thereby creating another syllable.

- André

2012/3/20 lojmIt tI'wI' nuv <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com>

> Drat! Replied to the sender instead of the list again. Bleah!
>
> tlher = Clarence because {tlher} is a verb, and except for {HoSghaj} and
> {lo'laH}, I'm pretty sure that all the verbs are monosyllabic. Those two
> verbs are "special". {tlher} is less "special".
>
> lojmIt tI'wI' nuv
> lojmIttI7wI7nuv at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Mar 19, 2012, at 6:52 PM, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
> > HIvqa' veqlargh.
> >
> > Lumpy's sister was named Violet. I don't know if there was a Claire on
> that show.
> >
> > -- ter'eS
> >
> > --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly at sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Terrence Donnelly <terrence.donnelly at sbcglobal.net>
> >> Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] {warjun} {tlher} je
> >> To: tlhIngan-Hol at kli.org, "Robyn Stewart" <robyn at flyingstart.ca>
> >> Date: Monday, March 19, 2012, 5:47 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Mon, 3/19/12, Robyn Stewart <robyn at flyingstart.ca>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Does anyone know the pun behind {tlher}?
> >>>
> >>> I can't remember whether it was the Beaver or his big
> >>> brother, but one of them had a pal named Lumpy.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The Beaver's big brother, Wally, had a friend named Clarence
> >> Rutherford, who was nicknamed Lumpy. His little sister, who
> >> was in Beaver's class, was named Claire.
> >>
> >> -- ter'eS
> >>
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