SR - More names
Dennis Grace
sirlyonel at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 21 08:48:28 PDT 1998
Salut Cozyns,
Lyonel aisai.
'wolf notes:
>while the surface water of the region is copious (and overly managed
and
>contained ... frown), the true wealth of the region is in the aquifers
.. "deep
>water", "hidden water", "dark water" (?) ... perhaps connected to
"spring"
>concept mentioned earlier
Hmmm. I think you may have something there, 'wolf. In French we could
use something like "Eau Cache" (hidden water) or "Lac Souterrain"
(underground lake). In practice, either of these would prabably have
been run together as a single word--i.e.:
Eaucache
Lacsouterrain
Frankly (no pun intended) I think both of these sound like real place
names.
I think the Italian for "hidden water" is something like "Latente
Acqua," but I'm not sure how the Italiians would have used that
information in a place name.
(I don't have a dictionary handy, can someone [Sir Conor?] check those
genders for me?)
lo vostre por vos servir
Sir Lyonel Oliver Grace, Capitan
Bryn Gwlad
Ansteorra
Micel yfel deth se unwritere.
--AElfric of York
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