Re: Saying "Thank You"

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 20:06:08 +0100, Dan Jones <feuchard@...> wrote:

>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
I see; it was the {gratia} that confused me, since that looks like Latin
{gra:tia}. Is *bar-dos the preform for bard? If so, AHD2 has *gwr=@-do. It
seems that your PIE *gher is Watkins' *gwer@1, both meaning praise. So much
for the comparative method (unless of course you're using an alternate
history PIE)!

Jeff

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