[Tlhingan-hol] -ing vs. -er

[Felix Malmenbeck]

Lots of examples from EuroTalk Talk Now! Learn Klingon:

DIr QanwI' taS - suntan oil
QaDmoHwI' DIr - towel
mIllogh qonwI' qoSta' – photographic film (makes sense, because you can interpret it as "camera film")
Ho'Du' Say'moHwI' tlhagh - toothpaste (even though a toothbrush is called a Ho' teywI')
Say'moHwI' tlhagh - soap

One migh argue that a jungle gym would be a {toSwI' qal'aq} rather than a {toSmeH qa'laq} because it doesn't really help you climb. That is, if you need to climb from point A to point B, you wouldn't build a jungle gym to do it; it's a {mI'meH jan}, not a {ghoSmeH jan}.

Compare that to the structures that painters and builders set up to do work on a building's exterior. Perhaps one of those would be a {toSmeH qal'aq}?

> 28 jan 2014 kl. 16:52 skrev "Lieven" <levinius at gmx.de>:
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> Am 28.01.2014 16:28, schrieb Steven Boozer:
> >    qoD QutlhwI' ngaDmoHwI'
>>   Inner Support Stabilizer (KBoP)
>>   [i.e. those ceiling supports flanking the captain's chair on a
>>    BoP that look like large shock absorbers]
> 
> When I got the word for jungle gym, I noticed some interesting detail: Marc Okrand very often translates words in the pattern "x-ing device" with {x-wI' Doch}, although many times I would have thought it could be {x-meH Doch}.
> 
> It's not a {QutlhmeH ngaDmoHwI'}, but  a {QutlhwI' ngaDmoHwI'}.
> It's not a {toSmeH qal'aq}, but a {toSwI' qal'aq}.
> 
> Do you have more examples of this kind?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Lieven L. Litaer
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