[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: DIvI'

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mayql qunenoS:
> 2. I read again this sentence {noH ghuHmeH DIvI'vetlh luchenmoHpu'
> vIghro'} (after sleep, coffee, etc) and I'm afraid that the
> fed,rested, and caffein-filled self of today, will agree with the
> hungry, tired and sleepy self of yesterday. Since on the
> {luchenmoHpu'} there is the prefix {lu-} this means that we must have
> the they-him/her/it meaning expressed ; and indeed we have the
> {vIghro'} which by the use of this prefix are meant to be many, and
> the federation as the object of the {luchenmoHpu'}. So, I can't
> understand a way in which the {DIvI'} could be supposed not to be the
> object of the {luchenmoHpu'} but the object of the {ghuH} instead.

I think you mean the *subject* of {ghuH}? It's because there is no
{lu-} in front of it.

{vIghro'} is the subject of {luchenmoHpu'}, and we know it's plural
because of {lu-}. It's also the implicit subject of {ghuHmeH}, so
there should be a {lu-} in front of that too. Qov pointed out that
without {lu-} there, either {DIvI'} is the subject of {ghuH} or {noH}
is plural.

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