On Fri, 5 Apr 2019 at 07:43, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
Am 04.04.2019 um 23:38 schrieb De'vID:
If the cook is ordering five pieces of Durani lizard skin from a butcher, it would be {vagh Duran lungmey DIr}, not *{vagh Duran lung DIrDu'}. I don't think the latter is possible, as {DIr} is being used in the sense of a material in this context.
Okay, that may be correct in this context, but what I suggested is not wrong either. At least, the latter is not impossible. In his message in st.k, Okrand wrote:
You should state the source. It's from a message on the startrek.klingon newsgroup: http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-03-23b-news.txt
---- [...]if the skin just came off either by natural causes [...] or by the creatures being, well, skinned, then the body-part plural suffix {-Du'} may be used: {DIrDu'}.
But {DIr} alone, without a suffix, is heard most often. ----
So we are both right.
Actually, that message supports your idea that an order to a butcher would use {DIrDu'}. -- De'vID