[Tlhingan-hol] What does "qu-" mean at the start of a word?

Chelsea Knauf chelsea.knauf at gmail.com
Thu Mar 26 10:02:12 PDT 2015


Still learning, but could it be a typo of {qa}, the verb prefix?  {qaja'}
would be "I tell you".  I don't know that I've seen a {qu} prefix otherwise.

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Anthony Appleyard <
a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:

> My Klingon to English parser which I am writing, sometimes refuses on
> words starting with "qu-" when translating text, e.g.:-
>
> quja' may mean:-
>
> # <qu> V:[tell|report]
>
> Is this word {quja'} a mistype? Or is there a morpheme "qu" which I have
> omitted from my parser's dictionary, and what is its role in grammar?
>
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