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The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 2001
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/1491

Alice Turner03 Dec 2001, 14:10original
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Eule wrote: Hindu----not so sure about the accuracy but fwiw: choora - four (the Rajan's knife)
I can count to ten in Hindi--though I need a jog to get started. Choora is not four.
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hari mau every may?
Mau is not May. Hari is a common male first name.
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jahlee jail?
Jahlee is a female demon or lamia. This is her sardonic joke, just as Krait takes the name of a Hindu viper.
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chota - instantly, a snap, at once, a blot ?
Chota means small. A chota peg is a small whiskey.
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darjan - a dozen chandi - fierce angry passionate gaon - knowledge understanding knowing ram - a negative value a debit an obligation pehla - an ornament worn by ladies
Not sure of these, but Ram is a common male first name, after the god Rama, and it seems unlikely to me that the word would have negative connotations. -alga

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