Re: [tied] Danke - dzienkuje - any connection?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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> Piotr Gasiorowski schrieb:
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>The
> sentece which is said is "bogdaproste" which is not understood but
> they, the peasants know, they must say so. The word is in fact the
> Bulgarian sentence "bog da prosit" (god bless you(?) which became in
> Rum. "bogdaproste" and in some other regions the "gd" cluster got
> reduced to "bodaproste". They say it, they know they have to say it
> that way, they have no idea what it means exctly. The sentence is
> not analysable for these speakers, they cannot recognise there no
> god in that sentence, they cannot recognise no bless, but they use
> it as such:-)
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> Thus, bog & prosit seems a plausible alternative for saying thank
> you in older times.
>
> Alex

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<Bogdaproste> meanis "Forgive it God" with variants <Boz^e me/mu/nas
prosti> "Forgive me/he/she/us God" and has nothing to do with <thanks>.

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