Northwest Caucasian
In the Northwest Caucasian family, such elements can include nouns, directional and locative preverbs (equivalents of prepositions), as in this example from Ubykh:
| sæbɣʲawqʼanajtʼ | ||||
| sæ- | bɣʲa- | w- | qʼa | -najtʼ |
| 1- | - | 2- | talk | - |
| You were talking about me (lit. you were talking on me) |
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Famous quotes containing the word northwest:
“I got my first clear view of Ktaadn, on this excursion, from a hill about two miles northwest of Bangor, whither I went for this purpose. After this I was ready to return to Massachusetts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)