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

From: altamix
Message: 44267
Date: 2006-04-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, alex <alxmoeller@> wrote:
> >
> > Thus, bog & prosit seems a plausible alternative for saying thank
> > you in older times.
> >
> > Alex
> ************
> <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>.
>
> Konushevci
>

the idea was that to say "thank you" was the same as saying "god should
bless you" or "forgive you" or what ever. The "bogdaproste" is
perceveid as "thank you" in the moment you get something from someone.
I am not sure if it clear enough what I intended to say.

Alex

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