[tlhIngan Hol] The mouth of Sauron

[mayqel qunenoS]

De'vID:
> wotvaD mojaq vIchel'eghmoHta'DI' Dayajbe''a'?

I can understand the meaning of the sentence, but I can't understand
the grammar. Since we have the {-'egh}, I can't understand how the
verb which carries it can obtain a subject.

jIH for Aurelie Demonchaux:
> however Aurelie, don't worry..
> tomorrow, I will search my notes, and copy-paste what was said at that thread

luckily, I was able to locate the thread. go to:

http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/2016-July/000911.html

and then press "next message" in order to see the rest of the replies.

qunnoH jan puqloD

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 3:07 AM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:
> On 12/20/2016 5:50 PM, De'vID wrote:
>
>
>
> On Dec 20, 2016 19:52, "mayqel qunenoS" <mihkoun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> however, when a word carries the {-'egh}, isn't that word incapable of
>
> having an object ?
>
> De'vID:
>
>> romuluSngan HoH'eghmoHlaH'a' tlhIngan?
>
> I can't understand this.. "the klingon is able to make himself kill the
> romulan" ?
>
> Is this canon
>
> wotvaD mojaq vIchel'eghmoHta'DI' Dayajbe''a'?
>
>
> I can follow the English-to-Klingon logic of these sentences, but I do not
> see the sequence of grammatical rules that construct them from Klingon
> originally and legally. Unless you're saying that we can read this as vI-
> [chel'egh] -moH I cause it to self-add, where chel'egh is being treated as a
> separate verb.
>
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