[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: {-mo'} noun suffix vs. {-mo'} verb suffix

[John R. Harness]

What is the thought process that leads you to this assertion?

Because without some sort of fictional history claiming that two words
coincidentally achieved the same form with the same meaning, I'd interpret
this (-mo' and -mo') as a suffix with two uses.


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On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 8:40 AM, lojmIttI'wI'nuv <lojmitti7wi7nuv at gmail.com>
wrote:

> {-mo’} applied to a noun phrase can’t change to behave like a verb suffix
> any more than {-Daq} or {-‘e’} or {-vaD}. The noun and verb suffixes {-mo’}
> and {-mo’} sound alike and have a similar sense of meaning, but they are
> not the same suffix, any more than “wear” and “ware” are the same words in
> English. Since we write Klingon phonetically, we can’t have different
> spellings of homonyms to differentiate them.
>
> pItlh
> lojmIt tI'wI'nuv
>
>
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