Salutations and farewells

[micc2]

in the early '80's my nahuatl instructor, Jeff Burnham told us that a
greeting he had run into was:

Tlein i'toa moyollo?  which meant "what says your heart?


mario
www.mexi'cayotl.org



David Gloster wrote:

> From what I can remember from 25 years ago a common greeting was
> "panolti" and the most common farewell was "timotazque". But when I
> get home and can look at my notes I can elaborate on that.
>
> David Gloster
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Nahua language and culture discussion <NAHUAT-L at LISTS.UMN.EDU> schrieb
> am 12.12.03 15:34:31:
>
> I am finishing up the first semester with my Nahuatl students. They have
> asked for common salutations, greetings, and farewells. To be perfectly
> frank given the way I learned Nahuatl, I never learned these things. Would
> any of you be willing to share the "hellos", "Good byes" and "how ya
> doins" with us all? Ill collect them and post them on the web.
>
> J. F. Schwaller
> List owner
>
>
> John F. Schwaller
> Vice Chancellor for Academic Af! fairs and Dean
> 315 Behmler Hall
> University of Minnesota, Morris
> 600 E 4th Street
> Morris, MN 56267
> 320-589-6015
> FAX 320-589-6399
> schwallr at mrs.umn.edu
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/nahuat-l/attachments/20031213/1064a15e/attachment.htm>