<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 12:26 PM Lieven L. Litaer <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de">levinius@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
{wa'leS} is in respect to today only</blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><b>teHbe'law'.</b></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">In the <a href="https://www.kli.org/activities/qepmey/past-qepamey/qepa-chamah-wejdich/new-words/">qep'a' 23 new words list</a>, there's a <a href="https://www.kli.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Time_Terms.png">bit about time travel</a>, and one of the examples is</div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b>jIvIbHa'. wejHu' jImev.</b><br><i>I time-travel three days into the past</i>; literally: "I time-travel to the past. I stop three days ago" - that is, I stop three days prior to a time referenced in the conversation, not necessarily three days prior to making this utterance.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Okrand's explanation suggests that the "number + time periods ago/from now" timestamps have some flexibility regarding what moment they're in reference to. It seems reasonable that, in the right context, <b>wa'leS</b> could be used to mean "the next day".<br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div>