SR - Naming the Region

[Conor Mac Cinneide]

On Monday, April 13, 1998 2:46 PM, clward at mmm.com 
[SMTP:clward at mmm.com] wrote:
>
> Mari pointed out that San Compostella derives from the Spanish
> "Campo Estella"
> or "Field of Stars" and suggests an analogue, Campoleon "Field of
> the Lion."
> This is her favorite name pick.  I like it as well, and would be
> pleased to see
> it in Spanish (reflective of the heritage of South Texas) but I'd 
be
> happy with
> it in any other language also, for instance Lyonwald or Leowald,
> perhaps.

On nitpicky point.  It is Santiago de Compostella.  But I think I 
could live with Campoleon.

>
> Mari had sopme more ideas based on the "Compostella" construction.
>  One is
> Compocorazon (a more Spanish construction) or Composcora (a Spanish
> derivation
> from a Latin original "Campus Cora"), "Field of the Heart".

Nah.

> Hearking back to Tivar's suggestion, Mari is concerned about the
> phonetic
> similarity of "Cibola" and "Ebola" - as in the deadly virus.
>  Instead, to keep
> the same image, Mari suggested El Dorado or, if that's too famous 
to
> use, then
> perhaps Campodorado (Field of Gold) or even just Dorado.

This reminded me of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, but I like it.

> I'd like to possibly follow this line of suggestion with Campozul
> (Field of
> Blue) thinking here of the solid swathes of bluebonnets on the
> roadsides
> throughout Texas.  This would allow use of the bluebonnet as a
> badge.

Don't like the way it sounds.

> Keeping with this theme, another idea suggested by Mari would be
> Compospina
> (from Spanish espina, "spine, thorn" - there may be a better word,
> perhaps
> zumbido or pegatina, but I'm unsure as to how the compound would be
> constructed) or perhaps Thornwald, "Field of Thorns", and then use 
a
> seme' of
> caltrops in the principality arms -- South Texas being well known
> for the fact
> that if it doesn't have spines, then it bites!  After the Lion
> names, "Field of
> Thorns" is my favorite!

I like Thornwald better than Compospina.

Conor

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