[tlhIngan Hol] QIp DIvI' Holqoq

SuStel sustel at trimboli.name
Fri Jan 7 08:23:01 PST 2022


On 1/7/2022 9:54 AM, Will Martin wrote:
> juplI’ yIchoSQo’! = Don’t desert your friends!
>
> bIQ Hutlh Deb. = The desert lacks water.
>
> ‘uQ DaSop. ghIq chab DaSopDI’ wanI’vamvaD chabvam Dellu'meH pong ghaj 
> DIvI’ Hol: “dessert”.
>
> DIvI’ Hol jatlhlu'DI'’ teSvaD nIb <<choS>> “dessert” je.
>
> DIvI’ Hol ghItlhlu’DI’ mInvaD nIb <<choS>> <<Deb>> je.
>
> tu’HomI’raH ‘oH DIvI’ Hol’e’.
>
> Three homonyms. Two are homographs. Two are homophones. They aren’t 
> the same two.

/Desert,/ an arid region, and /desert,/ abandon, come from the same 
word. Most dialects of English have a feature called 
initial-stress-derived nouns, where a verb which is stressed in the last 
syllable turns into a noun by moving the stress to the first syllable. 
There are nearly two hundred of these noun-verb pairs in English, and 
more are gradually being created. They are often derived from Latin, 
where the word begins with a Latin preposition. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun

/Desert/ is one of these. The /de-/ originally derives from a Latin 
element meaning "undo,"//and the rest comes from /serere, /"join 
together." A desert is literally — if not realistically — a place that 
is barren, abandoned. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=desert

/Dessert,/ comes from French, where the Latin /de-/ prefix had become 
/des-,/ still meaning "undo." The rest comes from /servir/ "to serve," 
and the Old French /desservir/ meant "undo-serve," or "clear the table." 
The French noun /dessert/ came to mean "last course (of a meal)," and 
English took the word and gave it a more specific connotation. 
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dessert

So... *QIpbe' DIvI' Hol. qunDaj Daghojchugh, mISHa'choH mu'meyDaj 
chutmeyDaj je.*

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SuStel
http://trimboli.name
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