[Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Tue Apr 15 06:33:31 PDT 2014
Bellerophon, modeler wrote:
> > Q: ghorgh tujchoHpu' bIQ?
> > A: bIDachtaHvIS, tujchoHpu' bIQ.
> >
> > I take it you would interpret {tujchoHpu'} as something like "finish
> > becoming hot." Why not just {tujchoH}, as SuStel asked?
SuStel:
> Well, I just asked what was the difference with not using -pu'; I
> recognize the sentence from the Useful Phrases list (which makes it a
> canonical example of -choH and -pu' together).[]
FWIW I found another example of -choH and -pu' together:
ghIq HoSHa'choHpu' moratlh
And Morath's strength was gone PB
And WRT getting hot {tujchoH}:
tujqu'choH QuQ
The engine is overheating. TKD
tujqu'choHmo' QeHchaj, nagh tetlaH tujvam
Their anger so hot, it could melt the rock (PB 76-77)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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