Re: [tlhIngan Hol] My list of 19 new words revisited
SuStel wrote:
I've seen *ghep* used as "age", backformated from the canon words *peHghep* "Age of Inclusion" and *nenghep* "Age of Ascension". Wouldn't this be "age" in the sense of era, rather than the count of years since a person's birth, though?
SuStel wrote:
I've seen *ghep* used as "age", backformated from the canon words *peHghep* "Age of Inclusion" and *nenghep* "Age of Ascension".
Am 28.07.2017 um 06:21 schrieb Jesse Manoogian:
Wouldn't this be "age" in the sense of era, rather than the count of years since a person's birth, though?
No certainly not, since these words really refer to an event of a person. Yet we don't know if the part ghep really refers to the age in numbers. If someone would say {ghepDaj yIngu'} "Identify his age", the answer could be very unclear like {nenghepDaj SIchta'} "He has reached his age of Ascension". You still don't know how old he is. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka Quvar valer 'utlh Grammarian of the KLI http://www.facebook.com/Klingonteacher
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