[NR] [Northkeep] Just a point on names

Jennifer Carlson talana1 at hotmail.com
Tue Oct 5 10:42:44 PDT 2010


Not to one who lives in a hilly, woodland part of the region.
 
Talana
Yeah, yeah, I'm being picky, but I'm just sayin'

 
> To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 13:08:50 -0400
> From: kevinkeary at aol.com
> Subject: Re: [NR] [Northkeep] Just a point on names
> 
> 
> 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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