Re: a call for conlang greetings!

I don't seem to have any Tairezan greetings. One of the very oldest (RT)
Tairezazh words still around is _ailetsh_ which means "farewell", but has no
etymology, and I'll probably replace it sooner or later.

                                              Andreas

Amanda Babcock wrote:
>
>On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 07:16:27PM -0400, Yoon Ha Lee wrote:
>
> > http://pegasus.cityofveils.com/greetings.phtml
> >
> > Since it's been a while since I've been on this list, I thought I'd ask
> > for more, as there are definitely faces I don't remember.  :-)  I'm
> > interested in new greetings and farewells--
>
>Toma Heylm doesn't have any greetings yet, but a semi-formal farewell is:
>
>         lo delye sa manyok leheya (to a male)
>         lo delye sa manil leheya (to a female)
>         lhi delye sa manrai leheya (to more than one person)
>
>Means "May you live happily".
>
>The farewell in mërèchi is "é dla".  It looks like it should mean
>something, but it doesn't.
>
>Odd that I never make up greetings, just farewells.  And poems about
>farewells.  I ought to make a poem about greeting instead.
>
>Amanda

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