[Lexicog] honorific horse

[Simon Wickham-Smith]

hi David -


On 10 Sep 2005, at 17:57, lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com wrote:
> Interesting. I hadn't heard about horses being part of a verb to go.
> Makes plenty of sense, though. And even of a verb meaning be! Is it an
> honorific be?

you know, my Mongolian is pretty rusty and I can't be 100% sure  
whether it's honorific.  Mongolian doesn't I think have much  
honorific vocabulary in the sense that Japanese or Tibetan does (can  
anyone out there clarify Altaic/Turkic honorifics, please...?) but I  
would say that morilox is used for esteemed persons.  But the  
Mongolian level of equiphilia is so intense that maybe it's a  
generalised word.  Unlike Tibetan, for sure, there is no  
differentiation between different people's horses - I have a mori and  
the Dalai Lama also has a mori.

Si
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On 10 Sep 2005, at 17:57, lexicographylist at yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Interesting. I hadn't heard about horses being part of a verb to go.
> Makes plenty of sense, though. And even of a verb meaning be! Is it an
> honorific be?

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