Re: Saying "Thank you."

On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 22:09:54 -0400, Sally Caves <scaves@...>
wrote:

>Hello fellow language cobblers.
>
>I want to send an email expressing thanks
>to Brenda Tremblay at WXXI for setting up
>that NPR interview with me, and I'd like your
>permission to forward her some of the most
>interesting remarks you posted.  Would
>that be okay?  Also, I'd like to ask you if you
>would volunteer your words for "thank you" in
>your languages, so she can get a taste of it.
>Even if you didn't hear the interview, or like it,
>it would be great if I could treat her to the look
>and sounds of your languages--I'm also curious!
>How do you say "thank you" in your conlangs?
>How do you analyze it grammatically, and how
>do you pronounce it?
I don't have an expression for "thank you" yet in Czirehlat. But I like
your idea of using "grateful". It makes perfect sense; the Czirehlat
equivalent is "zikki".

The Gjarrda for "thank you", in a characteristically brief expression, is
simply "bem". This is just the root of the verb meaning "to thank".