On 9/30/2017 6:41 PM, De'vID wrote:
On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <sustel@trimboli.name <mailto:sustel@trimboli.name>> wrote:
Whatever the verb is, we've got a few of them in Klingon.
*tagh*
*taghbej mu'qaDveS */Curse warfare has definitely begun. /(CK)
*Qu' DataghDI' 'aqtu' mellota' je tIqaw*/ When you begin a mission, remember Aktuh and Melota. /(TKW)
*mev*
*not mev peghmey */Secrets never cease. /(PK)
*bIjatlh 'e' yImev */Shut up!/ (PK)
*meQ*
*Ha'DIbaHmey meQ Sop 'e' tIv tera'nganpu' */Terrans enjoy eating burnt animals./ (CK, but notice the missing *lu-* on *tIv*)
*to'waQ meQ vutwI' */The cook burns the tendon./ (KGT)
And you've noticed *pegh.* There may be others I can't remember right now. There are also a lot of verbs whose transitivity we don't know, like *DIng* /spin /and *chagh*/drop./
Some other verbs of this type (where the presence or absence of an object changes the role of the subject) that I know of are:
{Don} v. be parallel, go parallel to {ghom} v. meet, encounter, assemble, rendezvous {So'} v. hide, cloak
And it's no coincidence that the ones that do it in Klingon are also the ones that do it in their English definitions... -- SuStel http://trimboli.name