On 1/7/2022 9:54 AM, Will Martin wrote:

juplI’ yIchoSQo’! = Don’t desert your friends!

bIQ Hutlh Deb. = The desert lacks water.

‘uQ DaSop. ghIq chab DaSopDI’ wanI’vamvaD chabvam Dellu'meH pong ghaj DIvI’ Hol: “dessert”.

DIvI’ Hol jatlhlu'DI'’ teSvaD nIb <<choS>> “dessert” je.

DIvI’ Hol ghItlhlu’DI’ mInvaD nIb <<choS>> <<Deb>> je.

tu’HomI’raH ‘oH DIvI’ Hol’e’.

Three homonyms. Two are homographs. Two are homophones. They aren’t the same two.

/Desert,/ an arid region, and /desert,/ abandon, come from the same word. Most dialects of English have a feature called initial-stress-derived nouns, where a verb which is stressed in the last syllable turns into a noun by moving the stress to the first syllable. There are nearly two hundred of these noun-verb pairs in English, and more are gradually being created. They are often derived from Latin, where the word begins with a Latin preposition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial-stress-derived_noun /Desert/ is one of these. The /de-/ originally derives from a Latin element meaning "undo,"//and the rest comes from /serere, /"join together." A desert is literally — if not realistically — a place that is barren, abandoned. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=desert /Dessert,/ comes from French, where the Latin /de-/ prefix had become /des-,/ still meaning "undo." The rest comes from /servir/ "to serve," and the Old French /desservir/ meant "undo-serve," or "clear the table." The French noun /dessert/ came to mean "last course (of a meal)," and English took the word and gave it a more specific connotation. https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=dessert So... *QIpbe' DIvI' Hol. qunDaj Daghojchugh, mISHa'choH mu'meyDaj chutmeyDaj je.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name