[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Say'qu'moH

[Felix Malmenbeck]

I believe what De'vID is suggesting that {lo'laH} could not have become itsown stem by that route, since that route wasn't open before it was a verb stem.

That being said, it's worth noting that we don't know for how long the current suffix order has been in place; there was a time when {ghIj qet jaghmeyjaj} was a valid sentence.
Also, it could be that {lo'laH} became its own verb stem *because* it was abused in the way Ruben suggests; people were saying {lo'laHlu'}, and the only way to reconcile this with Klingon grammar was to consider {lo'laH} its own verb stem.

Of course, there are many other possibilities. Perhaps {lo'} once had a meaning similar to {Qap} or {lI'}, with little distinction between the ability to use and the ability to be used; utility and resourcefulness are both possible measures of function.
We were discussing a similar example on the Conlangs group on Facebook, yesterday: The noun "ward" is most commonly used to mean "somebody/something to be guarded", but an older use of the word also has it as "somebody/something that guards".

Or, perhaps words like {vIlo'laHbe'bogh} were used so often that people started dropping affixes and using the word as an adjective. Perhaps it could even be derived from Clipped Klingon?

> 15 jan 2014 kl. 10:13 skrev "Lieven" <levinius at gmx.de>:
> 
> 
> ja' Bellerophon:
> >>> Isn't {lo'laH} an exception?
> 
> ja' Ruben Molina:
>>> [...]
>>> Maybe {lo'laH} was related with the "use-value" of a commodity:  {lo'laHlu'}
> 
> ja' De'vID:
>> 'ach DuHbe' *{lo'laHlu'}. tay'laHbe' {-laH} {-lu'} je.
> 
> You are right, we cannot use two same type suffixes together in the way that Ruben is using it above. But if I understand the explanation correctly, {lo'laH} "be valuable" is really one verb (quote: "not the verb lo' plus Type 5 suffix"), then it must be okay to say
> 
> {lo'laHlaH} "it is able to be valuable"
> 
> -- 
> Lieven L. Litaer
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