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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/10/2019 9:32 PM, Daniel Dadap
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">“what color is it?”
My first instinct on how to ask that question was “chay' nguv?” However, after I asked it that way, I immediately thought to myself that maybe that is asking about the means by which the car is colored (e.g. laSvarghDaq lunguvmoHpu' nguvmoHmeH qoqmey”) rather than its current state of coloration.</pre>
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<p>It can't mean that; you'd have to ask <b>chay' nguvmoHlu'pu'</b>
<i>how has one tinted it? </i>to get that.<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">So I reasked as “Doq'a'? SuD'a'? chIS'a'? qIj'a'?”</pre>
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<p>That's really awful.<br>
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<p>Your first instinct was correct. KGT tells us:</p>
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<p>There is, however, a verb, <b>nguv,</b> which means something
like “be dyed, stained, tinted,” though it is seldom used except
in the phrase <b>chay’ nguv</b> (“How is [it] tinted?”) or when
suffixed with <b>-moH</b> (“cause”) in the form <b>nguvmoH </b>(“dye,
tint, stain”; that is, “cause to be dyed,” etc.)...<br>
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