On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se> wrote:
I think one possibility is that Marc interpreted "In one move he X:ed, in one move he Y:ed, in one move he Z:ed and in one move he W:ed" as referring to four separate moves, thus motivating the use of the newly coined word {ngIq}.
It was pretty much the other way around. The passage originally referred several times to {wa' tonSaw' lo'...} which didn't make it obvious that it was the same {wa'} each time. Marc substituted {ngIq} to disambiguate the meaning and emphasize that it was a single action described with many effects. Context is important here, as always. The previous passage is all about how he stabbed Molor in the chest and pulled out his heart(s) using a special dual-pointed knife. If there had been additional actions in play, a "one by one" meaning would be called for. But with only the one {tonSaw'} to apply it to, the "singular" emphasis is clear. -- ghunchu'wI'