[Tlhingan-hol] Qun qa'

[Alan Anderson]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:41 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> ... You couldn't add it after the verb, either,
> because {wI'el je maH'e'} that would mean something like "*WE* enter it in
> addition to some other thing we did."

Uh, no. {je} is a noun conjunction, not an adverbial. What TKD
actually says (in section 5.3. Conjunctions) is this:

> The noun conjunction {je} has an additional function: when it
> follows a verb, it means "also, too".
>   {qaleghpu' je} "I also saw you, I saw you too"
> As in English, the meaning of such sentences is ambiguous:
> "I and others saw you" or "I saw you and others." The exact
> meaning is determined by context.

What it is *not* said to mean is "I saw (and did something else to) you."

That means {...wI'el je maH} would be perfect for the line in question.

-- ghunchu'wI'