On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:10 PM, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name> wrote:
I think the difference, which I just suggested in another message, is that *vItlh* is more general than *law'**. law' *is only about quantity, while *vItlh* is about quantity or size or intensity or whatever it is by which you measure a thing. If you measure a big quantity, either *law' *or *vItlh* will do, though *vItlh *assumes the listener knows you're talking about quantity; if you measure a big size, either *tIn *or *vItlh* will do, though *vItlh *assumes the listener knows you're talking about size; if you measure a big strength, either *HoS* or *vItlh* will do, though *vItlh *assumes the listener knows you're talking about strength; and so on.
It seems like *vItlh* has a similar set of meanings as the noun *-'a'* suffix.