# Grotestad and Grandecitta *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 08 Feb 2011* > 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. --- ### Andrew Mason *08 Feb 2011, 21:31* Gerry Quinn wrote: Gerry Quinn wrote. >> 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. ---