On Sat, 30 Nov 2019 at 03:45, Jeffrey Clark <jmclark85@gmail.com> wrote:

A question came up in conversation today about the use of -Daq with object prefixes on verbs of motion.

Would a construction like:

‘enteprey’Daq bIghHa’ vIjaH

Be valid,

This seems to be analogous to this canon sentence:

{lupDujHomDaq may'Duj vIchegh} "I return to the battle cruiser on the shuttle"

So you're on the Enterprise, and you're going to prison. (The prison may or may not be located on the Enterprise.)

See these:

http://klingonska.org/canon/1998-12-holqed-07-4.txt

https://www.kli.org/tlhIngan-Hol/1999/July/msg00312.html

and would it have any difference of meaning compared to:

‘wnteprey bIghHa’ vIjaH

Depends on the context. Here, you're going to the Enterprise prison. It doesn't imply you're already on the Enterprise. Maybe you're being ferried to the Enterprise, to enter its prison, on a shuttlecraft.

Or maybe the Klingons have captured all of Starfleet and are putting the crew of each ship into its own prison, and you're going to the "Enterprise prison" (the prison for the crew of the Enterprise).

De'vID