I think ambitransitive isn't the right word here. Ambitransitive verbs can be intransitive or transitive, like {Soj vISop} vs. {jISop}. This one reminds me more of Chinese and Thai in which some verbs are their own causative verb. But I cannot remember the correct term for this type of verb...

- André

2017-09-28 19:21 GMT+02:00 kechpaja <kechpaja@comcast.net>:

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 05:06:45PM +0000, Steven Boozer wrote:
> SEE ALSO:
> pegh          keep something secret, be secret, classified (v)

Wait, does this mean that {pegh} is ambitransitive? Klingon seems to
have very few verbs of that type, so I figure it would be worth
explicitly checking.

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.

And maybe, just maybe, Klingons aren't quite so rigorous with their transitivity as we are.

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