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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/27/2020 9:59 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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cite="mid:7bad977e-0a72-f462-029f-b9437424d50f@gmx.de">KGT lists
{nuH} as "possibility", and I think this must be an error. The
<br>
main body of KGT explains that {nuH} can be used metaphorically
for
<br>
"possiblity", but the regular word for "possibility" is {DuH}.
<br>
(KGT p. 109+110)
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<br>
What is the common treatment of this? Is there any information I'm
<br>
missing? Does {nuH }really mean possiblity, or is only used
<br>
metaphorically, like slang words are? In that case, the list
should have
<br>
had a remark like other slang words.
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<p>It's not slang, it's a metaphor. <b>nuH</b> means <i>possibility</i>
in the same way that <b>Soj</b> means <i>subject matter.</i>
It's an actual meaning the word has picked up that can be used
outside of slang contexts. The word literally means <i>weapon,</i>
but you can use it idiomatically to mean <i>possibility. </i>We're
only told that it appears in the idiom <b>Hoch nuH qel</b><i>
consider every possibility,</i> but the fact that it appears
separately on the word list suggests that it can be used with this
metaphorical sense wherever you like.<br>
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