From cbmvax!uunet!cuvmb.bitnet!LOJBAN Wed Aug 19 22:30:41 1992 Return-Path: Date: Wed Aug 19 22:30:41 1992 Message-Id: <9208192352.AA29828@relay1.UU.NET> Reply-To: Ivan A Derzhanski Sender: Lojban list From: Ivan A Derzhanski Subject: The Lojban Kalevala Project To: John Cowan In-Reply-To: "Mark E. Shoulson"'s message of Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:39:24 -0400 <4298.9208191441@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Status: RO > Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 10:39:24 -0400 > From: "Mark E. Shoulson" > >From: Ivan A Derzhanski > >> From: nsn@AU.OZ.MU.EE.MULLIAN > >> > >> Ivan writes (btw, welcome back; > > >Welfound. (I mean, _kalws se brhka_.) > > I take it that's an Arabic expression? (the _brhka_ root leads me to > believe that). No, it is Greek (well, my idea thereof :-)), _brhka_ `I found, I discovered', pronounced {vrika}, as in "Heureka" (the same in Classical Greek), _kalws se brhka_ `well I found thee [here]'. > Very similar one in Hebrew: And in Turkish and Bulgarian. I must say I wish there were an English equivalent - I'm always at a horrible loss when someone says "Welcome" or "Welcome back" to me. I just need some equally standardised formula to reply, and none is available. Ivan