[tlhIngan Hol] light a fire

DloraH seruq at bellsouth.net
Sat Oct 14 13:54:09 PDT 2023


On Sat, 2023-10-14 at 12:19 -0400, SuStel via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> On 10/14/2023 12:12 PM, Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> > In September, there was a discussion on Facebook whether it makes
> > sense
> > to say {qul lIng} "produce a fire". Some suggested this word, while
> > others said that if your produce something, there must be a
> > remaining
> > product, so {lIng} might not be the best choice.
> > 
> > During our preparation for the coming qepHom, Marc Okrand had a
> > chance
> > to forward our question to Maltz, and his answer somehow made both
> > our
> > suggestions be right. He wrote:
> > 
> > You can {lIng} a fire, but you’re more likely to {chenmoH} or
> > {vemmoH} 
> > it.
> 
> Odd that this was a question at all, since we already knew you can
> *qul 
> chu'* /light the fire./
> 

I'm a little confused.  vemmoH for light a fire came out back in 2020.
And where does qul chu' come from?
paq-batlh has qul wIchenmoH.


- DloraH




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