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The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 03 Dec 2001
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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

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