ти (spolaj ti) was commonly used in meaning thank you, derived from the Byzantine Greek εἰς πολλὰ ἔτη (is polla eti).Сполај ти! православие.мк, https://pravoslavie.mk/spolaj-ti/ "Еден израз во нашиот јазик којшто денес го слушаме сѐ поретко, за разлика од порано, а во иднина веројатно целосно ќе се исфрли од употреба и ќе можеме да го слушнеме само во Македонските народни приказни, е токму: „сполај ти“! Иако многу ретко се користи, сите отприлика знаеме што значи – „благодарам“, „фала“ ". Idiomatic expressions for "whether one <verb> or not" are formed as "<verb>-not-<verb>". "Whether one wants or not": This is also present in other Slavic languages, eg. Polish chcąc nie chcąc. Phonetics The main phonological features consist of: the presence of an unrounded central vowel, either a mid-central schwa or a high central vowel phonemeë in Albanian; ъ in Bulgarian; ă in Romanian; ã in Aromanian In Romanian and Albanian, the schwa is developed from an unstressed Example: Latin camisia "shirt" > Romanian cămașă , Albanian këmishë ) The schwa phoneme occurs across some dialects of the Macedonian language, but is absent in the standard. some kind of umlaut in stressed syllables with differing patterns depending on the language. Romanian: a mid-back vowel ends in a low glide before a nonhigh vowel in the following syllable. a central vowel is fronted before a front vowel in the following syllable. Albanian: back vowels are fronted before i in the following syllable. The presence of or but not This feature also occurs in Greek, but it is lacking in some of the other Balkan languages; the central vowel is found in Romanian, Bulgarian, some dialects of Albanian, and Serbo-Croatian, but not in Greek or Standard Macedonian. Less widespread features are confined largely to either Romanian or Albanian, or both: frequent loss of l before i in Romanian and some Romani dialects the alternation between n and r in Albanian and Romanian. change from l to r in Romanian, Greek and very rarely in Bulgarian and Albanian. the raising of o to u in unstressed syllables in Bulgarian, Romanian and Northern Greek dialects. change from ea to e before i in Bulgarian and Romanian. See also Albanian grammar Albanian–Romanian linguistic relationship Balkan languages Bulgarian grammar Greek grammar Macedonian grammar Paleo-Balkan languages Serbo-Croatian grammar Turkish grammar Notes References André Du Nay, The Origins of the Rumanians: The Early History of the Rumanian Language, 2nd edn. Toronto–Buffalo, NY: