Talk:Hoʻoponopono

Latest comment: 5 years ago by Thnidu in topic English "to"

English "to"

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Section Etymology included the following sentence:

Literally, hoʻo is a particle used to make an actualizing verb from the following noun, as would "to" before a noun in English.

This is patently incorrect, e.g. (the prefixed asterisk is linguistic notation for an incorrect form):

  • *to car
  • *to temperature
  • *to cat
  • *to lamp
  • *to banana

are not verbs. Some such derived verbs do exist, but the process is by no means automatic like suffixing "-ing" to form the present participle of a verb. I have deleted the bolded text.

--Thnidu (talk) 19:08, 10 January 2019 (UTC)Reply