[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yItlhHa'

[Will Martin]

I’ve long believed that {-Ha’} and {-Qo’} are classified as rovers simply because Klingon linguists dislike creating an entire category for a single member. They already had to do this with {-moH} as Type 4, because its position is specific, in the middle of the other suffixes. This was a chance to have ten categories, instead of 12, with 1/10 of the categories having a single member, instead of 1/4 of them having single members.

charghwI’ vaghnerya’ngan

rInpa’ bomnIS be’’a’ pI’.




> On Mar 25, 2019, at 8:27 AM, Daniel Dadap <daniel at dadap.net> wrote:
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>> On Mar 25, 2019, at 04:51, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> So the rule isn't that only {-qu'} is allowed, but that only rovers are allowed.)
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> Did {-Qo'} show up as well? I guess that wouldn’t make sense semantically, so I expect it wouldn’t. I wonder if that (and maybe other rover-only things) why {-Ha'} and {-Qo'} are classiford with the true rovers {-qu'} and {-be'}, even though they don’t really rove.
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