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Re: Yiddish influences in Brithenig

To: Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Yiddish influences in Brithenig
From: raybrown@macline.co.uk (Raymond A. Brown)
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 20:57:24 +0100 (BST)
Cc: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>, Andrew Smith <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>, Peter Skye <skye@poconos.com>, John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.edu>, Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@vcn.bc.ca>, Celticonlang List <celticonlang@lists.colorado.edu>, Sally Caves <scaves@frontiernet.net>

At 10:55 30/4/98, Andrew Smith wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> > Asseth ia!
>>
>> Eh?
>>
>>From latin Adsatis jam.  Enough already! oe!
>
>Although the only ejaculative I'm certain of is _ui!_ from latin heia,
>hey.  I guess Ach i fi could translate to Ui fui!

Umm - but Latin 'Vae mihi' is surely closer to 'ach y fi'/'ych y fi'.

And neither 'hey' nor 'heia' express disgust as the Welsh phrase does.

Raifun.
Now happily [r@I'vun]    ;-)

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