<div dir="auto">{buQ} means "to threaten" so {buQwI'} means "person or thing that threatens" which is what a "threat" is.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">qurgh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 7, 2017 2:22 PM, "mayqel qunenoS" <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Sometime ago, when I asked whether {ghelwI'} could be understood as "question", I was told that the answer is "no", since the meaning would be "asker", and not "question"..<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">maj.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">At star trek discovery, there is the sentence:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">{buQwI'vam 'omlu'meH wa' mIw tu'lu'}</div><div dir="auto">there is one way to confront this threat<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Can someone explain, why {buQwI'} means "threat", and not "threatener" ?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Now, don't get me wrong.. I am convinced that {ghelwI'} is "asker" and not "question". And I'm grateful to the people who explained to me what was going on.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But there is no way, I will swallow, that {buQwI'} means "threat".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">mayqel q</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>
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