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Re: early/late

cheesbro ([email protected])

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• Subject: Re: early/late
• Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:12:41 -0400 (EDT)
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> > Since nobody said anything to the contrary regarding my post "nol", I guess
> > that {Qup} and {qan} can also be used to mean 'early' and 'late'.
> 
> I didn't read your post about {nol}.
> 
> "Early" and "late" are {'eq} and {paS}.  "Young" and "old" are {Qup} and
> {qan}.  What makes you think anything else is correct?

The way he was using them, "while the day was young", "while the night was 
old", ['eq] and [paS] wouldn't work because the day was not 'eq and the night 
was not paS; they were right on time.
As someone else mentioned, for "early in the day" one could use [po].


DloraH

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