On Monday, June 13, 2022, De'vID <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> wrote:


Le lun. 13 juin 2022 à 18:11, Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> a écrit :

Another thing you've made me reconsider: I have definitely used both {ngIq} and {Hoch} following a plural noun, and while intelligible, it may have been totally unidiomatic usage.

I don't think this works. Dr. Okrand considered {Qapla'meywIj Hoch}, which appeared in the first edition of the paq'batlh, to have been a mistake. {Hoch} following an uncountable noun means "all of X", as in {nIn Hoch}. See my post "{Hoch} before and after a noun" about this.

Thanks for the quick and definitive response. That there's an example he considers a mistake seals the deal. It's certainly no problem to make it clear which weapons I'm talking about without doing this, e.g. {ngIq nuHmeyvam}.

~mIp'av