Happy birthday to you...

[pne]

Amy is three!

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[asciident]

happy birthday to Amy!

[tamar.livejournal.com]

please tell her

Herzlichen Glückwunsch zum Geburtstag

from tamar

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[pthalo]

already? wow.

[angelsk.livejournal.com]

Oh, Happy Birthday Amy!

[nitaq.livejournal.com]

batlh qoSDaj lopjaj.

[afuna]

Ooh! Happy birthday there, Amy!

[fridoline.livejournal.com]

Hoppy Birthday for Amy! :-)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

BTW, I've finished reading Harry Potter, courtesy of my one-hour (onen way!) commute to work.

You're coming over this weekend, aren't you? Then you can pick it up.

Thanks again.

[eva]

Happy birthday, Amy!

[nassus.livejournal.com]

Already? Time really has flown!

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday, Amy!
Wow, time flies! I remember when I friended you, you were writing about birth preparations and selecting a hospital for the birth... :o)

[pne.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Has it really been that long?

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

qaSjaj qoS Quchqu',
qaSjaj qoS Quchqu',
AmyvaD Quchjaj qoSDaj,
qaSjaj qoS Quchqu'!

No idea what the Ubykh is for "birthday", but I can calque it, I guess... ! A happy birthday to the new three-year-old (and a nice non-stressful day for the parents of said child if you intend to have a party of any stripe).

[pne.livejournal.com]

How does that Ubkyh phrase break down by morpheme?

and a nice non-stressful day for the parents of said child if you intend to have a party of any stripe

Thanks!

We didn't, not this year. About the closest we got was a walk to a playground with two neighbour children (one of whom is over four mornings a week anyway, including that day) and their mother. And tomorrow my sister will come visit us with her two children.

[schnurble.livejournal.com]

It definitely seems shorter to me...

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

:

: one (the closest Ubykh gets to an indefinite article)
: birth, a nominal usage of the verb "to be born"
: day
: good
: an intensifying suffix, here signifying "very"

: pronominal prefix marking third person singular absolutive and oblique arguments
: benefactive preverb
: to become (here used in its strictly monovalent sense, = "to come into being")
: marker of the optative mood

All together, literally "may a very good day of birth become for her".

We didn't, not this year. About the closest we got was a walk to a playground with two neighbour children (one of whom is over four mornings a week anyway, including that day) and their mother. And tomorrow my sister will come visit us with her two children.

Sounds like a wonderful series of birthday celebrations regardless. Are your sister's children Amy's only two cousins?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Are your sister's children Amy's only two cousins?

No; my second sister also has a son. And she just phoned us a quarter of an hour ago to tell us she'll be paying us a surprise visit, too!

So Amy will be meeting all three of her cousins, two of her three aunts, and four grandparents plus a great-grandmother. (Stella's parents and grandmother came over yesterday; my father and his wife will be coming over tomorrow with my sisters.)

...I was about to write "all grandparents", but Amy has three sets of grandparents. We had thought that Stella's father and his wife wanted to come, too, but that was a misunderstanding; he didn't get off work until yesterday evening and will be coming to Germany today. I'm not sure whether he's going to visit us while he's here.

In a way, I'm a bit jealous; I never knew any of my great-grandparents. (Partly because my parents were already fairly old when they had me, even though I was the first -- my father was 38 and my mother 29. And my paternal grandfather was 33 when he had my father and my maternal grandfather was 48 when he had my mother.)

[pne.livejournal.com]

two of her three aunts

Oops, make that "two out of four" -- I forgot Stella's sister (I have three sisters, she has one).

[leighbug]

Oh, Happy Birthday to her! Yay.

[ubykhlives.livejournal.com]

So Amy will be meeting all three of her cousins, two of her three aunts, and four grandparents plus a great-grandmother. (Stella's parents and grandmother came over yesterday; my father and his wife will be coming over tomorrow with my sisters.)

Wow. That's quite a gathering!

...I was about to write "all grandparents", but Amy has three sets of grandparents.

That child's going to be spoilt rotten. ;)

In a way, I'm a bit jealous; I never knew any of my great-grandparents.

As you point out, that tends to be a result of either birth order or of parents' age. I was lucky enough to know three of my great-grandmothers, and my great-grandmothers in the paternal line I knew for a considerable period of time; one died when I was about 12, and the other when I was about 18. (That's primarily an artefact of birth order; I was my parents' first child, and my father and my paternal grandfather are also the eldest in their families, and my paternal grandmother was an only child.)