SR - Re: Lionsmouth? (fwd)

[Dennis Grace]

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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