[Tlhingan-hol] Multiple verb suffixes

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 06:24:25 PDT 2014


ghunchu'wI':
>> qorDu'Daj tuq 'oS Ha'quje'e' tuQbogh wo'rIv. tuQtaHvIS Hem. ghaHvaD
>> quHDaj qawmoH.
>> "The sash that WorfT wears is a symbol of his family's house. He wears
>> it proudly as a reminder of his heritage."
>>
>> The grammar evident here hints at the intended usage of the otherwise
>> problematic set of words {tuQ} "wear", {tuQmoH} "put on (clothes)",
>> and {tuQHa'moH} "undress" from TKD.

'eD:
> I'd expect from {tuQ} that "put on (clothes)" and "undress" would use -choH
> instead of -moH. Maybe {tuQmoH} and {tuQHa'moH} are idioms.

Based on the {qawmoH} example, {tuQmoH} and {tuQHa'moH} would work like this:

{Ha'quj tuQ wo'rIv} Worf wears a sash
{wo'rIvvaD Ha'quj tuQmoH martaq} Martok puts a sash on Worf

I'll leave the sentence involving "Martok", "undress", and "Worf" as
an exercise.

'eD:
> But in general, it seems impossible to add -moH to a transitive verb. You
> could have {Hoch nuH qel torgh}, but if you try to use {qelmoH} to have one
> clause in which Maltz causes Torg to do this considering, {qelmoH} would
> have two objects, and it doesn't make grammatical sense.

Do you really mean grammatical sense? {torghvaD Hoch nuH qelmoH matlh}
is a perfectly grammatical sentence. (I'd understand what it means,
too.)

-- 
De'vID



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