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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/24/2019 8:44 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:132605eb-d09e-25af-a8d6-7296138e9172@gmx.de"><br>
what would {qaDIl} mean?
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Is it like in English that you gave somebody the money for their
job, or
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does it sound awkward as if I buy a person?
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<p>I think it would be context-dependent. In the context of slavery,
hiring someone, acquiring a sports-player's contract, and so on,
it would mean <b>SoH qaDIl,</b> where the speaker has paid money
to acquire the person they're speaking to. In other contexts it
would be an instance of the prefix trick, the long form of which
would be <b>SoHvaD jIDIl</b> or <b>SoHvaD vIDIl,</b> where the
speaker has paid for something for the benefit of the person
they're speaking to.</p>
<p>Undoubtedly, there are those immature people who, when being
treated to a meal in a restaurant and their host casually says <b>qaDIl,</b>
waggle their eyebrows, grin, and ask if they're supposed to be a
slave or something. The payer is then perfectly justified to roll
their eyes and wonder if they should have bothered treating the
person to lunch after all.<br>
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cite="mid:132605eb-d09e-25af-a8d6-7296138e9172@gmx.de">
And while talking about that... is there a word for "hire" a
person,
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i.e. charging him to do a paid job? I'm sure that {ngIp} is
strange.
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<p>None I can think of. <b>ngIp</b> is obviously wrong. I might use
something like <b>gheS 'e' DIl</b><i> pay for [someone] to take
on duties [of some job].</i> <br>
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