Re: Saying "Thank you."

(i orinally sent this only to one person...rather than the list)

aniyë Sylvia Sotomayor:

> On Sunday 19 August 2001 19:09, Sally Caves wrote:
> > How do you say "thank you" in your conlangs?
> > How do you analyze it grammatically, and how
> > do you pronounce it?
>
> The short form:
> leláñ(a)  "thanks" pronounced /le-la:-nya/
> it comes from the root -láñ- which means "praise"
Amazing! I just had to create a root for "thanks" in Silindion, and without
even reading this post, I made it TES, which has in common with TEK "praise"
the primative formant TE-. What a coincidence that you did the same thing! :)

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In Silindion:
tesésili "I thank you"  /tE`s.Es.Ili/

tes-e-si-li
praise-thematic vowel-1sg-2nds enclitic.

(the dotted s. is the special Silindion s which is made by almost touching
the tip of the tongue to the alveolus but not quite. (what a stupid
description I know, but I still haven't found an adequate way to describe it,
nor an IPA symbol to write it with)

A more polite expression used in High Silindion is:
nési ternásya línti.  /`nEs.i tEr`nasja `linti/

ne-si terna-n-sya lit-ni
give-1sg thanks-acc-1sg possessive you-dative

(notice assimilation  -n-sy- > -sy-  and the metathesis
-t-n- > -nt-)

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