<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I'm wondering, wouldn't <pagh’a’> convey "absolutely nothing / absolute nothingness"?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From what I understand while checking the TKD,it looks like the -'a' suffix intensifies the meaning of the noun it is attached to, and "-Hom" reduces the intensity of the meaning.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thus, to express "a little nothing / almost nothing / very little", perhaps <paghHom> is the way to go ?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-08-15 9:55 GMT+02:00 Anthony Appleyard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a.appleyard@btinternet.com" target="_blank">a.appleyard@btinternet.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The word HochHom is well known'<br><br>HochHom may mean:-<br>- N:[most|greater_part]=<br>- N:all NS1:diminutive<br><br>i.e. "small all".<br><br>Is there any chance for what seems to me to be a logical opposite to it?:-<br><br>pagh'a'<br><br>pagh'a' may mean:-<br>- N:nothing NS1:augmentative<br>- N:no_one= NS1:augmentative<br>- I:0 VS9:interrogative<br>- I:0 NS1:augmentative<br><br>I was tempted to suggest it to ask Marc Okrand about using pagh'a' as "big nothing", i.e. "next to nothing", "very little", "not enough to be of use".<br><br><p></p><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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