On 9/7/2021 7:58 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Back in the day (as americans say) we were saying:
{'ul law'} much electricity
{'ul puS} little electricity
Then the game changed, and we begun to say:
{'ul vItlh} much electricity
But what was obviously forgotten was how to say "little electricity".
*'ul vItlhHa'.* Here's how I visualize *-Ha'.* It's like a vector. If you imagine a verb having a direction, adding *-Ha'* means to deflect it from its normal direction. So if you imagine *jatlh* /speak/ as having a "direction of communication," an imaginary direction representing progressing speech, then *jatlhHa'*/misspeak/ is a deflection from the normal direction of *jatlh.* If you imagine *par*/dislike/ as having an emotional direction, the more this way the more dislike, then *parHa'*/like/ is a 180-degree turn. *-Ha'* isn't just negation (that's *-be'*). Negation wouldn't be a vector; it would be a stoppage of the imagined motion. *-Ha'* isn't just the opposite. It's a deflection from the normal course. So *vItlh* can clearly be imagined as having a direction. Most of us would imagine that direction as upward. *vItlhHa'* would be a deflection from upward, and for most contexts it would make the most sense to be a turning to downward. Hence, if *vItlh* is /high (in quantity, intensity),/ then *vItlhHa'* is /low (in quantity, intensity)./ -- SuStel http://trimboli.name