Grotestad and Grandecitta

The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Feb 2011
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5955

Andrew Mason08 Feb 2011, 21:31
Gerry Quinn wrote: Gerry Quinn wrote.
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Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big City'.
There's also Urbs, which I suppose just means 'city'. And 'Viron' might come from 'environment' (c.f. Brian Aldiss's 'Total Environment'). Methinks Typhon's planners had the imagination typical of bureaucrats...
Also Gens, 'tribe', and Wick 'settlement' or the like. On the other hand, as well as Trivigaunte there is Palustria, 'marshland', and the original Pajarocu. Perhaps other gods chose those names - presumably Sphigx did for Trivigaunte.

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