--- Roger Mills <romilly@...> wrote:
> 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..........
Oh no! I've got the mis-posting SARS!
> >
> > GRATIAS would give gracha or a plural grachas.
> > GRATIAM HABEO might give grachaveu.
>
> There's also GRATIAS AGO, how would that come out?
>
That would be grachegu.
> > 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.
>
That would give xucra.
> > KALI' SSO'RTA-SSU might give calisorrasu.
>
> How 'bout Modern Grk. /efxaristo/ "eucharisto",
> accent I think on the -o?
>
Well, how would Modern Greek get borrowed into 14th c.
Carrajena?
> > 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.?
Those two are Kabyle and Tamazight respectively. I
like it too. It's under special concideration.
Adam