Subject: (whorl) Mattak

From: Wesley Parsons (7065) <wrp at adorno.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 18:18:15 +0000

[Posted from Whorl, the mailing list for Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun]

>>Gee, will Mattak be a chip off the old block?<<

I understand from some of the same sources that mattak means "dried
whale flesh" in Inuit.  (I assume in a particular Inuit dialect--there's more
than one.)

Oosik and Mattak, like many members of Vironese families, have related
names.

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