「ありがとうございや」 - Dialect? Train Station 言葉？


Today as I was transferring trains in Nagoya the station attendant was
shouting repeatedly「ありがとうございや」. Doing a search on the internet revealed that
this seems to be a shorted form of ありがとうございやした but I have never heard of this
before.

Is this from a specific dialect/age group/group Is it's usage just a simple
replacement of 「ま」in 「～ました」 Can this be done to any verb, or is it limited to
「る」ending verbs that conjugate to 「い」in 丁寧語 (polite speech)?




It might be ありがとうございやす with devoiced す.
[ございやす](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%81%94%E3%81%96%E3%81%84%E3%82%84%E3%81%99&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0),
whose meaning is the same as ございます, was used in the Edo dialect in the
16th–19th centuries, and seems to be still in use in the Ibaraki dialect. I do
not think that either ありがとうございや or ありがとうございやす is used in the Nagoya dialect.




It might be ありがとうございやす with devoiced す.
[ございやす](http://dic.yahoo.co.jp/dsearch?enc=UTF-8&p=%E3%81%94%E3%81%96%E3%81%84%E3%82%84%E3%81%99&dtype=0&dname=0ss&stype=0),
whose meaning is the same as ございます, was used in the Edo dialect in the
16th–19th centuries, and seems to be still in use in the Ibaraki dialect. I do
not think that either ありがとうございや or ありがとうございやす is used in the Nagoya dialect.

