[Tlhingan-hol] tera' Hovtay'Daq PLUTO HurDaq bIHtaH'a' latlh yuQmey?
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Jan 20 10:16:25 PST 2015
On 1/20/2015 1:11 PM, SuStel wrote:
> On 1/20/2015 12:54 PM, lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> It’s a noun. We can’t forget that inconvenient truth. The definition is
>> “(noun) additional one, another one” and we keep wanting to eliminate
>> the word “one” from it and use it to mean “(adjective) additional,
>> another”.
> I think the moral of this story is that some nouns can modify other
> nouns in a very adjectival way, and still be nouns.
By the way, this is just another example of the genitive noun-noun
construction (TKD §3.4). {latlh tlhIngan} "additional-one Klingon," as
distinguished from the Klingon I was first talking about, the "first-one
Klingon."
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SuStel
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