[NR] [Northkeep] Just a point on names

[Robert Fitzmorgan]

I guess Mongols and prairies are like Eskimos and snow.  Lots of words for
the same thing.

Robert

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Kevinkeary <kevinkeary at aol.com> wrote:

>
> I've run across a few interesting, and appropriate, phrases in Mongolian
> that might be worth considering:
>
> Apparently Mongolian has two words for prairie, Tal and Kheer, as English
> has prairie and steppe. I'm not sure about any nuance of difference in those
> two. It appears that Tal is more often used in constructing phrases, though,
> like:
>
> Eerem Tal -- open plain prairie
> Khöndii Tal -- wide open prairie
> Uuzhim Tal -- wide open prairie
> Uudam Tal -- vast prairie
> Engüi Tal -- boundless prairie
> Nüd Aldam Tal -- boundless prairie
>
> Any of these sing to anyone?
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