# Digest whorl.v012.n167 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 2001* > 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. --- ### Alice Turner *03 Dec 2001, 14:10* > 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 ---