<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 14:56, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</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">Here's what I have in my notes:<br>
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'uD laser (n) KGT <br>
sic for {'uD'a'} - an error from the "official charghwI' list" at the KLI web site [source?]<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Why do you think this is an error, as opposed to just the same noun with the suffix {-'a'}?</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">
'uD Haqtaj laser scalpel (n) (medical device) [HQ 1.3:9 < veS QonoS]<br>
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'uD'a' laser (n) [HQ 1.3:9 < veS QonoS]<br>
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If {'uD'a'} is the correct form, it begs the question: "What is {'uD}? Perhaps a beam of light? Or a smallish, low-power laser (suitable for surgical devices), with {'uD'a'} being the more powerful kind used in industry or as a weapon? </blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is how I have understood the definitions, that {'uD} and {'uD'a'} both mean "laser", with the latter being a bigger, more powerful, or more important version of the former.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">De'vID</div></div>