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Re: [Latejami] citegangwe

In a message dated 2009-02-12 21:15:00 Eastern Standard Time, veoler@hidden.email writes:


citegangwe

What do you think? Does it fit as "hi" and "hello"?

I'm presently using the counterpart in my language as the main greeting.

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Veoler


I think that might work.  Here's how I understand the word:
"citeg-" is the root 'greet'; "-ang-" is the suffix for inverse; "-we" is the ending for vocative.  So the whole means something like "Greeted one!".  It's certainly more concise than 'I greet you' = "Dasu citega bavi xevi".

But I just use "Tomwe!" for 'hello'.  
Tomwe [Zero-n] - Hey!, Say there!, Ahoy!, attempt to get someone's attention. "Tomwe" is a stand-alone sentence and takes no arguments.

stevo