<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 21:07, Ed Bailey <<a href="mailto:bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com">bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">No surprises on the use of<b> -logh</b> in MKE: It says <b>Duj ghajchugh vay, cha'logh boq'egh qav'ap motlh; chen qav'ap le'. ghajwI'vaD qav'ap le' yIDIl.</b> "If owned, pay owner twice the rental to which they are otherwise entitled."<div><b><br></b><div>(But it is proof that actual numbers aren't required in arithmetic expressions; as one might expect, it's possible to insert a word like <b>qav'ap</b> that has some numeric value that may be unspecified.</div><div>Also, something I hadn't noticed before: evidently <b>DIl</b> can be used to mean "pay (the amount paid)," and not just the gloss of "pay for," </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>How so? {qav'ap} "rent" is a thing that you pay for. You're paying for rent, not for the amount of the rent (though this happens to be how much you have to pay).<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>so you might say <b>Duj vIje'meH wa' 'uy' DarSeq vIDIlpu'</b> "I paid one million darseks to buy the ship." </div></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>I don't think that's right. That says that you paid for one million darseks (i.e., you bought one million darseks, using something else).<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div></div>