On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:10 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:I think the difference, which I just suggested in another message, is that vItlh is more general than law'. law' is only about quantity, while vItlh is about quantity or size or intensity or whatever it is by which you measure a thing. If you measure a big quantity, either law' or vItlh will do, though vItlh assumes the listener knows you're talking about quantity; if you measure a big size, either tIn or vItlh will do, though vItlh assumes the listener knows you're talking about size; if you measure a big strength, either HoS or vItlh will do, though vItlh assumes the listener knows you're talking about strength; and so on.
It seems like vItlh has a similar set of meanings as the noun -'a' suffix.
-'a' and -Hom don't just mean great in
quantity/intensity/etc.; they usually make the noun into a
different thing entirely. vItlh doesn't do that; it just
describes a noun.
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