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Re: How shall I thank thee?

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Sunday, May 25, 2003, 21:06
Adam Walker wrote:

> I've been posting about this over on Conlang, but this > is really the mor apporpriate forum for continuing > this dither.
Hmm, looks like my spate of mis-postings has infected you..........
> > GRATIAS would give gracha or a plural grachas. > GRATIAM HABEO might give grachaveu.
There's also GRATIAS AGO, how would that come out?
> SHUKRAN would be xugrana.
Try a different form of the base? Indonesian has syukur ['Sukur] from (supposedly) /Sukr/-- though it's used more in religious contexts, since there's a perfectly good native term.
> KALI' SSO'RTA-SSU might give calisorrasu.
How 'bout Modern Grk. /efxaristo/ "eucharisto", accent I think on the -o?
> TAMEMMIRT might give tamirr. > TANUMERT migth give tanumerr or tan~err.
For some reason I like tanumerr (with -i if you must)-- is that from a Berber lang.?

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Adam Walker <carrajena@...>