[Tlhingan-hol] "So what's Klingon for 'Now get your kit off?'"

[Ruben Molina]

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm at kth.se> wrote:
>> tuQ = wear
>> tuQHa' = undress (undo-wear)
>> tuQHa'choH = undress, resulting in a change of state (from not
>> undressing to undressing)
>
> I would not translate tuQHa' as "undress", but rather as "unwear", suggestion that you've worn something but no longer are.
> tuqHa'choH = "start unwearing", or "undress"
>
> We also have the odd case of «tuQmoH», "put on (clothes)" [TKD], which appears to be its own root verb, distinct from tuQ+moH.

Why would it be its own root?

tuQ+moH = "cause to wear (some clothes)"
tuQmoH = "put on (some clothes)"

Are they really different?

> «tuQmoHHa'» = "take off" — http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1993-12-holqed-02-4.txt&get=source
>
> So, supposedly:
> vItuQmoHHa' = "I take off [an item of clothing]"
> vItuQHa'moH = "I undress [a person]"
>

Would that mean that after <tuQHa'moH> the person would be naked but
after <tuQmoHHa'> the person would be missing a *some* piece of cloth
?

Thanks