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hi David -<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On 10 Sep 2005, at 17:57, <A href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Interesting. I hadn't heard about horses being part of a verb to go. </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Makes plenty of sense, though. And even of a verb meaning be! Is it an </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">honorific be?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">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 <I>morilox</I> 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 <I>mori</I> and the Dalai Lama also has a <I>mori</I>.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Si<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>---</DIV><DIV>Körnerstraße 1, 01407 Leipzig, Germany</DIV><DIV>cell: 0049 (0)1627 325868</DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.qamutiik.net">http://www.qamutiik.net</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10 Sep 2005, at 17:57, <A href="mailto:lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com">lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Interesting. I hadn't heard about horses being part of a verb to go.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Makes plenty of sense, though. And even of a verb meaning be! Is it an<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">honorific be?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV>
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