# Digest whorl.v007 *The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 14 Aug 1997* > 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. --- ### m.driussi *14 Aug 1997, 22:25* Reply: Item #8520349 from WHORL at LISTS.BEST.COM@INTERNET# Kieran Mullen, Re: Dorcas as gazelle. Ah, so sorry--you must have thought I was being wooly and mantic. Nope. Not to deny the saint Dorcas/Tabitha at all, no sir. Just that "Dorcas" =means= gazelle; this is not a debatable point. (Tabitha is Aramaic for gazelle, I believe.) DICTIONARY OF NAMES: "Dorcas" (Greek) A gazelle LATIN DICTIONARY: "dorcas" feminine gazelle, antelope (hmm, so which is it: Greek or Latin?) DICTIONARY OF WORD ROOTS AND COMBINING FORMS: "dorca, -do, =s" (Greek) A gazelle The encyclopedia entry under "gazelle" states that there is a dorcas gazelle (G. dorcas), which isn't surprising. I'd swear there's an interview with or article by Wolfe that says "Dorcas means gazelle" but I can't find it at the moment, so maybe I'm mistaken. In any case, I'm surprised that I didn't mention this in the Lexicon (where I did allude to the resurrected widow of Bible lore), or, having failed that, that I neglected to mention it in either errata chapbook. Well, that's how it goes, doesn't it? On the bright side, there's always the next chapbook! =mantis= ---