[Tlhingan-hol] rup

[Lieven]

Am 12.11.2015 um 19:44 schrieb Will Martin:
> The line had a now-disappeared verb {ma’},

Well, not disappeared entirely, just a new meaning.

> with it’s prefix {qa-} and
> what was at the time a past tense suffix {-pu’}.
 > The word was {qama’pu’}.

The complete phrase was:
{qama'pu' jonta' neH}
"I told you only the engine", so the verb meant "say", before we got {ja'}

The new subtitle is:
"I wanted to make prisoners", which explains why there is this strange 
rule that the perfective suffix is not attached to the verb {neH} "want" 
in such a phrase.

> has subsequently made the verb {ma’} mean “accommodate”, which is
> apparently what he had to do to satisfy his director.

One more of Okrand's puns :-)
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