[tlhIngan Hol] Who shall call them from the twilight ?

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Wed Dec 14 06:43:13 PST 2016


On 12/14/2016 9:37 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
>
> SuStel:
> > 'Ip lulay'bogh HevwI' tuqnIgh
> > house member of the receiver of the oath
> > which they swore.
>
> thank you for explaining this ! I just learned something new, 
> something I hadn't realized so far !
>
> we have the {'Ip lulay'bogh} "the oath which they swore". and then we 
> have the {HevwI' tuqnIgh}. So, we put them together, forming a 
> noun-noun construction thus getting "house member of the receiver of 
> the oath which they swore". this is beautiful !
>
> I hadn't realized that we could take a noun, entangle it with {-bogh} 
> and use it in a noun-noun construction.
>
> jIQuch !
>
> however, a new question just appeared in my mind, so let me ask you..
>
> instead of the {'Ip lulay'bogh HevwI' tuqnIgh}, could we write {'Ip'e' 
> lulay'bogh HevwI' tuqnIgh}, or would this be considered a violation of 
> the rule that "in noun-noun constructions only the last noun can take 
> type-5 suffixes" ?
>

Yes, it would.

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SuStel
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