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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/9/2016 12:54 PM, Michael Roney,
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<div class="gmail_extra">As usual, context is key.
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<div class="gmail_extra">I would not think "young" unless
context made it clear that we were discussing the ages of
animals.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps hunting season is upon us, and
the prey have to be a certain age in order for us to kill
them.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">{loDHom} does mean "boy" afterall. Is a
boy a small man, a young man, a lesser man?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">What about a midget? Is a midget not a
{loDHom}?</div>
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<div class="gmail_extra">I could also see two people camping,
one of them is new to camping.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">They hear a rustling in the brush, and
the camper who knows the area informs the newcomer that it's a
{Ha'DIbaHHom}, and not to worry about it.</div>
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<p>ghIlab ghewmey tIbuSQo'!</p>
<p>Also important is that <b>-Hom</b> is not necessarily always an
ad hoc suffix. A <b>loDHom</b> is exactly one thing: a boy. Not a
small man, not a man of lesser status. It has been lexicalized. A
<b>Qa'Hom</b> is not a small <b>Qa',</b> but a completely
different animal.</p>
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