On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 2:06 AM Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
So how about {nelmoH}? {A DanelmoH} might mean "you cause A to match," but match what? {A B je DanelmoH} might mean "you cause A and B to match," but that doesn't mean A and B are matching each other -- it means you cause A and B to match something else -- but what?
The problem is that {nel} takes a subject and an object (the two things that match each other), but not a third thing. And you can't use the prefix trick with {nelmoH} because there is no non-third-person indirect object.
So to give the command "Make A match B," you have to do it periphrastically.
I'm a little late on this, but what about *-vaD*? We've seen it used before for sentences where *-moH* is used on transitive verbs and the original subject gets relegated to a *-vaD* noun, in the form of *B verb A -> AvaD B verbmoH X.* Would that not work here? *DochvetlhvaD Dochvam DanelmoH* "You make this thing match to that thing", or "You make this thing a match intended for that thing" (to translate *-vaD* a little more literally).