On 28 September 2017 at 19:38, SuStel <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 There are also homophonous pairs like {SaH} (where it likely means "be present" without an object and "to care about" the object when there is one) but I think those cases are really pairs of verbs which happen to sound the same. -- De'vID