Show odd origin of 0 custom in abyssinia the emperor la is corn com conly called jan hoy boy meaning his majesty the word words have a strange history it Is given by a passage in the a chronicle of macdara maryam the king sarga dengel while engaged in a military expedition camped in dambra was surprised to hear the th inhabitants shout jan b hoy which means HI elephant at an elephant which was destroying a field of con and fled when thus accosted then the king said that whenever he went to pillage corn if the deop people I 1 e cried jan hoy boy he would consider their claims and redress their wrongs from this arose the custom ot ad dressing the king as jan hoy boy as an equivalent tor for asking tor for justice the expression gradually losing its caal significance and be becoming comin the or binary term of address when speaking of his majesty |