On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Pierre Abbat
<phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
On Friday, February 17, 2012 15:08:04 MorphemeAddict wrote:
> How does "gasnu" fit into the words for 'lock' or 'unlock' or 'add a lock
> to', i.e., telgau, toltelgau, telcaugau. It seems to me that the "gau"
> component should be "ga'o", but there is a separate word "telga'o", not
> equal to "telgau".
"-gau" usually means "x1 makes that (whatever comes before gau, with its
places shifted by 1)". x2 of "gasnu" is an event, which is the abstraction of
whatever comes before "gau". So:
stela: x1 is a lock on x2 with mechanism x3
telgau: x1 makes x2 be a lock on x3 with mechanism x4.
"telgau", as I interpret it, does not imply that x3 is locked. A locksmith
takes a door which does not have a lock and puts a lock in it: that's
"telgau". I put the key in the lock and turn it so that the door cannot be
opened without the key: that's "telga'ogau". The door cannot be opened without
the key: that's "telga'o".
Pierre
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