[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: buQ

[mayql qunenoS]

Qov :

> Only a type-5 suffix moves to the second noun--and only if the two nouns are
> in a noun-noun pair.  All other suffixes go on the noun they actually refer
> to.

Thank you for clarifying this ! I thought that whenever there was a
noun-noun construction, every kind of noun suffix, necessarily needed
to be placed on the last noun regardless of the noun to which it
actually referred. Luckily, now I understand.

qunnoq

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:59 PM,  <qov at kli.org> wrote:
>> But wait a minute.. I just noticed it !
>>
>> {Sa'HutlIj qoDDaq} or {Sa'Hut qoDlIjDaq} ?
>
> To me, the first implies that there it is your butt and it has an inside.
> The second implies that there is one butt, or many, possibly communal,
> butts, but one of the insides is yours.
>
> De'wI'lIj tamey qalmoH  peQchem. = A magnetic field corrupted your computer
> records.  (They were the records on your computer)
> De'wI' tameylIj naw' Sa'. = The general accessed your computer records.
> (They were the records about you, on some military computer or maybe many
> computers).
> may' Qu'lIj yIta'.  = Play your role in the battle.
>
> Only a type-5 suffix moves to the second noun--and only if the two nouns are
> in a noun-noun pair.  All other suffixes go on the noun they actually refer
> to.
>
> - Qov
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