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Re:Taʿârof, the ceremony of courtesy by gamegoblin on Friday December 04, 2015 @08:36PM (#10680397)
Mersi is a loanword from French[1], it's also used in the adjacent country of Armenia.

The Proto-Indo-European root for "no" is *ne, so many (most?) IE languages feature this. e.g. no, non, nyet, nein, ne, na, ni, etc. There are languages from India to Ireland that have this sort of negation. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_loanwords_in_Pe...

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/...

Re:Taʿârof, the ceremony of courtesy by ekianjo on Saturday December 05, 2015 @12:13AM (#10680972)
By the way, I can understand the use of loanwords for modern things that you did not have in your language, but why use a loanword for something as simple as "thank you" ? Didn't Farsi have a specific word for showing gratitude in its language in the first place? Why is it not used instead?
Re:Taʿârof, the ceremony of courtesy by ekianjo on Friday December 04, 2015 @09:05PM (#10680479)
The list in [1] is huge! So many loanwords.