[tlhIngan Hol] qep'a' wejmaH wa'DIch mu' chu'

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On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 8:31 AM Alan Anderson via tlhIngan-Hol <
tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 12:56 PM MorphemeAddict via tlhIngan-Hol <
> tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
>
>> [watlhmoH] (v.) is given as "smelt", as in ore, but there should be a
>> comment or new word to the effect that it is NOT the fish. ("Any small
>> anadromous <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anadromous#English> fish of
>> the family Osmeridae
>> <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Osmeridae#Translingual>, found in the
>> Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part
>> of Europe.")
>>
>
Aside from the "(v)" annotation, it's also very clearly just {watlh} "be
pure" with the suffix {-moH} turning it into "purify", applied to ore.

yIDoghQo'.  wot 'oHbe'ba' bIQDep Seghvam'e'.
> If you find an example of the fish's name being used as a verb, I might be
> convinced that you have a valid point.
>

This is English we're talking about, and I can just badger, buffalo, dog,
bug, flounder, or smelt nouns (fish or otherwise) into verbs as I please.

('ach tlhIngan Hol DIp vIwotlaHbe'ba'.)

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