20 Dec
2016
20 Dec
'16
9:36 a.m.
mayqel qunenoS asked:
can an ordinal number take the {-'e'} ?
SuStel answered:
I don't see why not. Ordinals are still numbers, and numbers are treated grammatically as nouns.
I quite agree, but I could find only one example of a noun suffix used with {-Dich}: qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'. [untranslated] (st.klingon 11/1996?) To which SuStel commented some time later (do you remember the date?): "... in answering my letter about {qep'a' wejDIch}, Marc Okrand used the phrase {qep'a' wejDIchDaq}. Now, it could be considered just a name, but it may also be possible that noun suffixes can go to the ordinal number." -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons