Re: Trans: 'I love you'

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Wm wrote:

> --- Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
> > Has anyone noticed how many of these translations use some variation
> > of
> > "mer" or "mir" to mean love?  I have a language in which "meraa" is
> > "to
> > love," as well.  Did we all get it from Ancient Egyptian?
>
>         I did actually grab it from Egyptian.  I take it "meraa" came
> from that source?
Yup.  The "mer" sound seems absolutely perfectly iconic, to me, for love.
It sounds cozy and warm.

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