30 Jul
2019
30 Jul
'19
12:41 p.m.
On 7/30/2019 12:30 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
Noted. But it still makes a good mnemonic. Any idea of the origin of {ya}? It’s an unusual noun ending in a vowel and Okrand chose not to use {to'} “tactics” to form *{to’pIn}.
There were a lot more words that ended in vowels in the original dictionary than we get today. I would guess it's just a random syllable Okrand chose. Why not *to'pIn?* Why not *DeghpIn?* I think Okrand was intentionally /not/ being systematic. It helps make the language more closely resemble a natural language. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name