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Re: Saying "Thank You"

From:Dan Jones <feuchard@...>
Date:Monday, August 27, 2001, 18:53
Jeff Jones wrote:

> >grateas = thanks (from a Aredos word meaning "praise"- gratia <PIE > >*ghrd-ta:) > >grateas ao domeu/ae domea = thank you sir/madam > >moutas grateas = thanks a lot > > I suspect that grasea ['graIS@] is used in Rubaga. > BTW where'd you get the PIE reconstruction -- it looks wrong to me. > Wouldn't *ghrdta: become something like grassa or hirsa in Latin? I see > that AHD2 has *gwr=@-to > gra:tus.
It may well become *grassa in Latin. Aredos is a sister language to Latin and so has its own sound-changes. *ghrd-ta: is a typo anyway- should be *ghr-ta:, plural neuter passive participle of the zero-grade of the root *gher- being a root for praise (found in Common Celtic *bar-dos). Dan ---------------------------------- La plus belle fois qu'on m'a dit "je t'aime" c'était un mec qui me l'a dit... Francis Lalane ----------------------------------