Re: Saying "Thank you."
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 24, 2001, 5:09 |
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On Tuesday 21 August 2001 19:11, Elliott Lash wrote:
> 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! :)
>
It just made sense to me as sort of an acknowledgement that someone
has done something for you.
-Sylvia
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Sylvia Sotomayor
sylvia1@ix.netcom.com
wa jamú anániTa; (not.be thing.SG one/alone.ADJ)
The Kélen language can be found at:
http://home.netcom.com/~sylvia1/Kelen/kelen.html