[tlhIngan Hol] What Maltz does: {'otHa'}

[SuStel]

On 9/30/2017 6:41 PM, De'vID wrote:
> On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name 
> <mailto:sustel at trimboli.name>> wrote:
>
>     Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.
>
>     *tagh*
>
>         *taghbej mu'qaDveS
>         */Curse warfare has definitely begun. /(CK)
>
>         *Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw*/
>         When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. /(TKW)
>
>     *mev*
>
>         *not mev peghmey
>         */Secrets never cease. /(PK)
>
>         *bIjatlh 'e' yImev
>         */Shut up!/ (PK)
>
>     *meQ*
>
>         *Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu'
>         */Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals./ (CK, but notice the
>         missing *lu-* on *tIv*)
>
>         *to'waQ meQ vutwI'
>         */The cook burns the tendon./ (KGT)
>
>     And you've noticed *pegh.* There may be others I can't remember
>     right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose transitivity we
>     don't know, like *DIng* /spin /and *chagh*/drop./
>
> Some other verbs of this type (where the presence or absence of an 
> object changes the role of the subject) that I know of are:
>
> {Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to
> {ghom} v. meet, encounter, assemble, rendezvous
> {So'} v. hide, cloak

And it's no coincidence that the ones that do it in Klingon are also the 
ones that do it in their English definitions...

-- 
SuStel
http://trimboli.name

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