Onomastics Again
The Urth list — 5 messages, 4 voices, 11 Sep 1999
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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
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Michael Andre-Driussi — 11 Sep 1999, 20:34
  follows, by subject match 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=

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Jim Henley — 12 Sep 1999, 09:55
  follows, by subject match 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
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"We can't be certain who the villains are
cause everyone's so pretty"
              -- Sheryl Crow

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Alex David Groce — 13 Sep 1999, 11:55
  follows, by subject match 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

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Tony Ellis — 13 Sep 1999, 11:30
  follows, by subject match 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...

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