Subject: Re: Digest whorl.v012.n167

From: Alice Turner <aturner3 at nyc.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 14:10:12 +0000

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.

>hari mau every may?

Mau is not May. Hari is a common male first name.

>jahlee jail?

Jahlee is a female demon or lamia. This is her sardonic joke, just as Krait
takes the name of a Hindu viper.

>chota - instantly, a snap, at once, a blot ?

Chota means small. A chota peg is a small whiskey.

>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