On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 21:07, Ed Bailey <bellerophon.modeler@gmail.com> wrote:
No surprises on the use of -logh in MKE: It says Duj ghajchugh vay, cha'logh boq'egh qav'ap motlh; chen qav'ap le'. ghajwI'vaD qav'ap le' yIDIl. "If owned, pay owner twice the rental to which they are otherwise entitled."

(But it is proof that actual numbers aren't required in arithmetic expressions; as one might expect, it's possible to insert a word like qav'ap that has some numeric value that may be unspecified.
Also, something I hadn't noticed before: evidently DIl can be used to mean "pay (the amount paid)," and not just the gloss of "pay for,"

How so? {qav'ap} "rent" is a thing that you pay for. You're paying for rent, not for the amount of the rent (though this happens to be how much you have to pay).

so you might say Duj vIje'meH wa' 'uy' DarSeq vIDIlpu' "I paid one million darseks to buy the ship." 

I don't think that's right. That says that you paid for one million darseks (i.e., you bought one million darseks, using something else).

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