# Onomastics Again *The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 11 Sep 1999* > 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. --- ### Jim Henley *11 Sep 1999, 18:04* I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and um, what'shername mean - you know, the other one. Best, Jim ***************************************** "These are the days of empty kitchens" -- Sheryl Crow --- ### Michael Andre-Driussi *11 Sep 1999, 20:34 · follows Jim Henley* > Jim wrote: > I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and > um, what'shername mean - you know, the other one. Odilo--tenth century Abbot of Cluny who established All Souls's Day. A Teutonic name, meaning "rich." Pega--Saint Pega (died 719) was reputed to have cured a man of blindness. Thais--Saint Thais is penitent, saint, patron of fallen women or courtesans in 4th-century Christian legend. A Greek name meaning "beloved." I hope that helps. =mantis= --- ### Jim Henley *12 Sep 1999, 09:55 · follows Michael Andre-Driussi* > -----Original Message----- > From: urth-errors at lists.best.com [mailto:urth-errors at lists.best.com]On > Behalf Of Michael Andre-Driussi >> I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names >> Odilo, Thais and >> um, what'shername mean - you know, the other one. > Odilo--tenth century Abbot of Cluny who established All Souls's Day. A > Teutonic name, meaning "rich." > > Pega--Saint Pega (died 719) was reputed to have cured a man of blindness. > > Thais--Saint Thais is penitent, saint, patron of fallen women or > courtesans > in 4th-century Christian legend. A Greek name meaning "beloved." > > I hope that helps. That's at least two out of three, so you bet it helps. Now, if I get the LEXICON for my birthday like I asked, these kinds of things will get much simpler! Do you suppose "Pega" might be yet another Italianate diminutive of "Patricia?" Best, Jim ***************************************** "We can't be certain who the villains are cause everyone's so pretty" -- Sheryl Crow --- ### Alex David Groce *13 Sep 1999, 11:55 · follows Jim Henley* There's also Anatole France's THAIS. About said courtesan, I believe, and a stylite. (I haven't actually read it myself.) "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." John 8:32 ``` Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu) Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department 8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066 http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce ``` --- ### Tony Ellis *13 Sep 1999, 11:30 · follows Alex David Groce* > Jim wrote: > I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me what the names Odilo, Thais and > um, what'shername mean - you know, the other one. Well, I can do Thais: traditionally, that's the name of the Athenian slave\courtesan who encouraged my hero Alexander the Great to torch beautiful Persepolis at the height of a boozy three-day victory celebration. One of those incidents that his critics use to portray him as a drunken barbarian, but you can see how it could have seemed like a really good idea at the time... ---