[tlhIngan Hol] Is the {telDaq wovmoHwI'} legal ?

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Sun Dec 4 08:50:37 PST 2016


On 12/4/2016 11:44 AM, Alan Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 8:29 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mihkoun at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     At the BoP poster we have {telDaq wovmoHwI'} for "wing light".
>
>     Doesn't this violate the rule that in a noun-noun construction
>     only the last can have type-5 suffixes ?
>
> It does, if you consider {telDaq} to have a Type 5 noun suffix.
>
> It does not, if you consider it to be a compound {tel} "wing" + {Daq} 
> "location", making the phrase "wing-location brightener".

But then it really behooves you to explain why Okrand didn't just go 
with *tel wovmoHwI'.*

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SuStel
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