K'tabbe Jan van Steenbergen:
> Hehe. Is this a case of anadewism? Because that is more or less what
happens in
> Russian: "da" normally means "yes", but also serve like an optative
marker, for
> example in "da zdravtsvujet".
> I'm not sure what the relationship is between this "da" and the normal
optative
> marker "pust'", though. Perhaps one of our Russian speaking friends could
> enlighten me here.
I've never thought about it, but I'm afraid you are right. At least, quite
few Slavic langs that express "yes" with particle |da|. Ukrainian et al. use
|tak| "this way (adv.)"
Yitzik
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