[Tlhingan-hol] do {vIttlhegh} become {ngo'} or {qan}?

[Brent Kesler]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 5:56 AM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> In the other direction, though, I had an Ubykh proverb in my signature for
> a long time, of which the English translation was "Old roads and old
> friends will never deceive you". The problem is that English "old friend"
> in this circumstance doesn't really mean {jup qan}. Can one, therefore,
> talk about a {jup ngo'} - an old friend, one that one has known for a long
> time - as opposed to a {jup qan}, merely a friend who happens to be old?
>
> I don't expect an answer, of course - this is a mere rhetorical
> consideration.
>


jup nI'?
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