On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 8:31 AM Alan Anderson via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 12:56 PM MorphemeAddict via tlhIngan-Hol < tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
[watlhmoH] (v.) is given as "smelt", as in ore, but there should be a comment or new word to the effect that it is NOT the fish. ("Any small anadromous <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anadromous#English> fish of the family Osmeridae <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Osmeridae#Translingual>, found in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and in lakes in North America and northern part of Europe.")
Aside from the "(v)" annotation, it's also very clearly just {watlh} "be pure" with the suffix {-moH} turning it into "purify", applied to ore. yIDoghQo'. wot 'oHbe'ba' bIQDep Seghvam'e'.
If you find an example of the fish's name being used as a verb, I might be convinced that you have a valid point.
This is English we're talking about, and I can just badger, buffalo, dog, bug, flounder, or smelt nouns (fish or otherwise) into verbs as I please. ('ach tlhIngan Hol DIp vIwotlaHbe'ba'.) -- De'vID