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Re: Tech _hay_

From:Muke Tever <alrivera@...>
Date:Monday, July 9, 2001, 14:05
>===== Original Message From Constructed Languages List >There's a root in Proto-Nostratic I really want to use in Tech: *hay (an >interjection expressing surprise, amazement, grief, regret etc.) But not
only
>as an interjection, but also as a case prefix: > >borg "war" >hävorg "what a war", "oh war" [ä = a umlaut] > >This is not the vocative case; it's something else, and I need a good
Latinate
>name for it.
Hey! (*hay?) - isn't that a mirative? *Muke! -- http://www.southern.edu/~alrivera/ ICQ: 1936556 AIM: MukeTurtle "We're making the Internet easier to use by keeping you from using all of it."

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