Jonas/Jonah definition
The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 27 Jul 2009
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O'Donnell, Tim BOSI — 27 Jul 2009, 16:11

Hi all,

Not sure if this has been posted before; I couldn't find it in the archives.

Check out the third definition of Jonah (from which Jonas is derived) as given below:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Jonah
Jonah
	A male given name </wiki/given_name>. 
	(Biblical) A book of the Old Testament </wiki/Old_Testament> and the Hebrew </wiki/Hebrew> Tanakh </wiki/Tanakh>. 
	(nautical, slang </wiki/Appendix:Glossary>) A person who brings a ship bad </wiki/bad> luck </wiki/luck>. 
	(slang </wiki/Appendix:Glossary>, by extension of the nautical sense) Any person or object which is deemed to cause bad luck; a jinx </wiki/jinx>.



I wonder if crash landing a space ship after centuries adrift in time and space could be considered bad enough luck to qualify!

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