On 8/3/2017 10:32 AM, mayqel qunenoS wrote:
In tkd {HeghmoH} is given as "be fatal".
Does this mean that whenever someone uses it, he *has* to use it in order to say that "something is fatal" ? And thus only use it as a be verb ?
Can't someone use it in order to say "something/someone caused something/someone to die" ? And so use it in a transitive way ?
I don't think *HeghmoH* is a "be" verb. I think *HeghmoH* is a sort of passive version of *HoH. HoH* says /this thing does this./ *HeghmoH* is more like /he's dead because of this thing./ This is just my gut feeling on the matter, not a rule. You could say *HeghmoH tar*/poison is fatal,/ but you couldn't say **tar HeghmoH* /fatal poison./ If a first officer assassinates a captain for weakness, you'd say *HoD HoH yaS wa'DIch*/the first officer kills the captain,/ not *HoD HeghmoH yaS wa'DIch*/the first officer is fatal to the captain,/ even though the sentence is perfectly grammatical. Again, this is just my opinion. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name