[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh

[Philip Newton]

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 16:21, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Qov:
>> At my qepHommey we say yIDIng or tIDIng to tell the next
>> player to start his turn at Monopoly, just because I said
>> it once and they liked the sound.
>
> jIHagh.  I get a mental image of the players spinning round in their chairs!  Surely you would need to say {tIDIngmoH} "spin them" with {-moH}.  I imagine {DIng} works like {jIr} "rotate, twirl" vs. {jIrmoH} "twirl bat'leth, cause bat'leth to rotate" (cf. KGT p.60).

Someone (De'vID jonpIn?) asked Marc Okrand about {DIng} at the qepHom
wa'maHDIch (2011) in Saarbrücken.

I seem to recall that he agreed that it was intransitive (the spinning
thing {DIng}s, and the one who spins it {DIngmoH}s it), but am not
sure whether the answer might not have been the characteristical
noncommittal instead.

Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton at gmail.com>