[Tlhingan-hol] {ra'} as verb of saying

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Feb 9 05:26:04 PST 2016


On 2/9/2016 5:27 AM, Lieven wrote:
> Am 08.02.2016 um 20:29 schrieb Steven Boozer:
>> I noticed another example with {‘e’} as the subject or {ra’}:
>>
>> *  nuH'e' qengbogh mangghomvam luDel 'e' ra' molor***
>>
>>    Molor asks them what weapons this army carries (PB)
>
> So this examples makes clear that you can:
> a) command a person: {qara': yIjegh}

That could be an example of the prefix trick in operation, using the 
prefix to indicate a second-person indirect object. However, we have had 
a non-ambiguous example of {<nuv> ra'} in paq'batlh, which I can't look 
up at the moment.

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