[Tlhingan-hol] Dante qul'a'

[David Trimboli]

On 4/26/2013 4:45 AM, De'vID wrote:
>> nIqolay:
>>> Some of the postings I'd read were interpreting it as a quantity noun like
>>> Hoch et al., meaning "each, taken one at a time".
>
> Voragh:
>> If you look at the examples you'll see that {ngIq} is always first word in the clause, i.e. in the adverbial position:
>
> I thought it was an adverbial too, until 'ISqu' and others corrected
> me, who had apparently heard from Okrand himself that it's a noun at
> the qep'a' where they did the proofreading. The fact that it's the
> first word in every example we have seems to be only a coincidence.

It's the first word because time stamps go at the beginning of a 
sentence. It works just like any other time stamp noun, e.g., DaHjaj.

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