<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">I believe that <b>wa'DIch</b> can be used as a noun. However, I'm not sure it means what you think it means in <b>maghwI' ghaH Haw'bogh wa'DIch'e'</b>. I think it means more like "The first is a traitor, and also flees.", ie. that it's not talking about the first to flee, just about a first, and that first flees.</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">Iikka "fergusq" Hauhio</div><div class="protonmail_signature_block" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;">
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On Friday, April 29th, 2022 at 16.10, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:<br><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/29/2022 8:03 AM, D qunen'oS wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">maghwI' ghaH Haw'bogh wa'DIch'e'</div>
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<div dir="auto">Would it be correct?</div>
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<p>Here is the evidence in favor:</p>
<p>1. TKD flat out tells us "Numbers are used as nouns." Ordinals
are numbers. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to suppose that
ordinals can be used as nouns.</p>
<p>2. The word <b>cha'DIch</b> is used as a noun to refer to one's
"second" during legal proceedings when the accused is not allowed
personal combat.</p>
<p>3. <i>paq'batlh</i> uses <b>cha'DIch</b> as well as the other
ordinals from <b>wa'DIch</b> through <b>vaghDIch</b> as
adverbials, so it is canonically known that the ordinals can act
in ways other than just modifying nouns.</p>
<p>Given these, I have no qualms about using <b>wa'DIch</b> or any
ordinal as a noun the way you have.<br>
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