[tlhIngan Hol] -meH with -pu'/-ta'

[nIqolay Q]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 10:52 AM Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> This is all I have in my notes about {‘an}:
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> ‘an                        waste (v) (qep'a' 2018)
>     "as someone sacrifices forces for a certain goal or just wastes one’s
> resources" (qep'a' 2018)
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> ‘anmoH              sacrifice (v) (qep'a' 2018)
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> Does anyone have anything else, for example being used in a sentence by
> Okrand from the qep’a’?
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> -- Voragh
>

On Facebook, Lieven posted a video where he was talking about some of the
new words with Okrand. Okrand glossed {'an} as "be a waste", as a stative
verb instead of a transitive one.

As for the original question, using {-meH} with {-pu'} or {-ta'} seems like
it would mean something like "in order to complete doing something".

{paq vIlaDta'meH juHwIjDaq jIratlh.} "I stayed home to complete/finish
reading the book." I wanted to make "reading the book" a completed action,
so I stayed home. Something like that. It might not translate easily into
English but the usage makes sense.
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