{ "export": { "source": "https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/1773", "note": "Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright in each message remains with the person who wrote it. Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact.", "addresses": "obscured as 'user at host'" }, "archive": "urth", "thread": { "id": 1773, "subject": "Onomastics Again", "messages": 5, "voices": 4, "first": "1999-09-11T18:04:04+00:00", "last": "1999-09-13T11:55:52+00:00" }, "messages": [ { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jim Henley", "address": "jlhenley at erols.com" }, "date": "1999-09-11T18:04:04+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Onomastics Again", "in_reply_to": null, "reply_link": null, "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and\num, what'shername mean - you know, the other one.\n\nBest,\n\n\nJim\n *****************************************\n\"These are the days of empty kitchens\"\n -- Sheryl Crow" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Michael Andre-Driussi", "address": "mantis at sirius.com" }, "date": "1999-09-11T20:34:19+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Onomastics Again", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Jim wrote:\nI'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and\num, what'shername mean - you know, the other one." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Odilo--tenth century Abbot of Cluny who established All Souls's Day. A\nTeutonic name, meaning \"rich.\"\n\nPega--Saint Pega (died 719) was reputed to have cured a man of blindness.\n\nThais--Saint Thais is penitent, saint, patron of fallen women or courtesans\nin 4th-century Christian legend. A Greek name meaning \"beloved.\"\n\nI hope that helps.\n\n=mantis=" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Jim Henley", "address": "jlhenley at erols.com" }, "date": "1999-09-12T09:55:57+00:00", "subject": "RE: (urth) Onomastics Again", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "-----Original Message-----\nFrom: urth-errors at lists.best.com [mailto:urth-errors at lists.best.com]On\nBehalf Of Michael Andre-Driussi" }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 2, "text": "I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names\nOdilo, Thais and\num, what'shername mean - you know, the other one." }, { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Odilo--tenth century Abbot of Cluny who established All Souls's Day. A\nTeutonic name, meaning \"rich.\"\n\nPega--Saint Pega (died 719) was reputed to have cured a man of blindness.\n\nThais--Saint Thais is penitent, saint, patron of fallen women or\ncourtesans\nin 4th-century Christian legend. A Greek name meaning \"beloved.\"\n\nI hope that helps." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "That's at least two out of three, so you bet it helps. Now, if I get the\nLEXICON for my birthday like I asked, these kinds of things will get much\nsimpler!\n\nDo you suppose \"Pega\" might be yet another Italianate diminutive of\n\"Patricia?\"\n\nBest,\n\n\nJim\n *****************************************\n\"We can't be certain who the villains are\ncause everyone's so pretty\"\n -- Sheryl Crow" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Alex David Groce", "address": "alex_groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu" }, "date": "1999-09-13T11:55:52+00:00", "subject": "Re: (urth) Re: Onomastics again", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "There's also Anatole France's THAIS. About said courtesan, I believe,\nand a stylite. (I haven't actually read it myself.)\n\n\n\"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\" John 8:32" }, { "kind": "sig", "depth": 0, "text": "Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)\nPh.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department\n8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066\nhttp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce" } ] }, { "message_id": "", "from": { "name": "Tony Ellis", "address": "tony.ellis at futurenet.co.uk" }, "date": "1999-09-13T11:30:08+00:00", "subject": "(urth) Re: Onomastics again", "in_reply_to": "", "reply_link": "subject", "blocks": [ { "kind": "quote", "depth": 1, "text": "Jim wrote:\nI'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and\num, what'shername mean - you know, the other one." }, { "kind": "text", "depth": 0, "text": "Well, I can do Thais: traditionally, that's the name of the Athenian\nslave\\courtesan who encouraged my hero Alexander the Great to torch beautiful\nPersepolis at the height of a boozy three-day victory celebration. One of those\nincidents that his critics use to portray him as a drunken barbarian, but you can\nsee how it could have seemed like a really good idea at the time..." } ] } ] }