The verb used for signing an autograph is tlhI'. This is also the verb

to use for artists signing their works. This action involves making a

mark of some kind that is associated specifically with the mark maker.

This mark could be (and maybe usually is) the name of the signer (that

is, a signature) made in a distinctive way that only the signer uses,

perhaps in a form difficult to decipher by those unfamiliar with what it is.

As with qI', the object of tlhI' is the document (or photo, work of

art, etc.) that the signature is applied to.

There is also a noun tlhI' that might best be translated as

"signature." (It is not grammatical to say tlhI' tlhI' "sign a

signature"; the verb tlhI' already includes the notion that the

resulting mark is a tlhI'. Well, tlhI' tlhI' could be used, I

suppose, if one were to sign on top of an already-existing tlhI'.)

bItlhI' vIneH, literally something like "I want you to sign," would be

understood to mean "I want your autograph." (Similarly: paqwIj DatlhI'</div><div>vIneH would be understood to mean "I want you to autograph my book.")

Interestingly, tlhI' (both the noun and the verb) may also refer to

what an animal does to mark its territory.

To write (or make marks) in general is, of course ghItlh.

The verb used for signing an autograph is tlhI'. This is also the verb to use for artists signing their works. This action involves making a mark of some kind that is associated specifically with the mark maker. This mark could be (and maybe usually is) the name of the signer (that is, a signature) made in a distinctive way that only the signer uses, perhaps in a form difficult to decipher by those unfamiliar with what it is.

As with qI', the object of tlhI' is the document (or photo, work of art, etc.) that the signature is applied to.

There is also a noun tlhI' that might best be translated as "signature." (It is not grammatical to say tlhI' tlhI' "sign a signature"; the verb tlhI' already includes the notion that the resulting mark is a tlhI'. Well, tlhI' tlhI' could be used, I suppose, if one were to sign on top of an already-existing tlhI'.)

bItlhI' vIneH, literally something like "I want you to sign," would be understood to mean "I want your autograph." (Similarly: paqwIj DatlhI' vIneH would be understood to mean "I want you to autograph my book.")

Interestingly, tlhI' (both the noun and the verb) may also refer to what an animal does to mark its territory.

To write (or make marks) in general is, of course ghItlh.