<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 6:48 AM Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</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">
In addition to the above, we talked on the phone to find some solutions.<br>
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- To talk about a motorcycle, Okrand confirmed that this counts as a<br>
land vehicle, i.e. a {puH Duj}. Although a motorcycle looks like a bike,<br>
you cannot say {qam Do Duj} because it definitely goes faster than {qam<br>
Do}. <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">This is interesting to me. I always figured the phrase {qam Do Duj} for "bicycle" was a sort of calque on "velocipede", but here {qam Do} might be a phrase in its own right. The fastest a person can go without powered assistance, maybe?</div></div></div>