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> > > > Bon zrn! - Good morning! > > Isaac Penzev wrote: > > > What's the origin of the root _zrn_ ? > Christian Thalmann eskribiw: > > _Diurnus_, I guess. It sounds a lot like "Buon Giorno". Isaac Penzev wrote: > Yea, that was my guess too, but the semantics of the word confused me. > ... Could you be reading it too literally? "Good day" is a greeting in many langauges but not (wild estimate) for a majority of Anglophones, so "Bon zrn" is translated here as the nearest common greeting in English. -- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/