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  "thread": {
    "id": 84,
    "subject": "Flyer names and their translations",
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    "first": "1997-02-10T19:42:35+00:00",
    "last": "1997-02-10T19:42:35+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<whorl-v0002-0127@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Derek Bell",
        "address": "dbell at maths.tcd.ie"
      },
      "date": "1997-02-10T19:42:35+00:00",
      "subject": "(whorl) Flyer names and their translations",
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          "text": "\tI'm sure Ranjit will be pleased to see where the names of the\nflyers are from, as well as the meaning!\n\n\tThe names are words from Irish Gaelic. (Scots Gaelic is\nsimilar, but has diverged a bit.) They are not proper nouns, not as\nused today, but are interesting in translation.\n\n\tNote that some of the names have an accute accent in Irish\n(also called a fada - which means \"long\"), which denotes a long vowel\nsound. I'll also give the Irish version of the word when it has a\nfada, with a \"'\" preceding the vowel it should be over - otherwise the\nvowel should always be short - as brief as you can make it.)\n\n\tNow before anyone starts asking me for Irish lessons, I have\nto admit that I'm not very fluent in the language - my pronunciation\nis good, but I don't speak it well: for instance I've had to look up\nnearly half of the words because I didn't know them, but I had an\ninkling in a couple of cases and checked to make sure.\n\n\tI've used the list of flyers named in _Lake_ and _Exodus_ as\nthe source for the names; I don't think that there's any I missed.\n\n\tIolar:\t\tEagle\n\tA flyer\n(Pronounced like \"muller\" without the \"m\")\n\n\tDreolin:\tSparrow\n\tIolar's favorite daughter\n(\"Dreo\" is as \"dro\" in \"drone\" - lin as \"lean\".)\nIrish:\tDreol'in\n\n\tAer:\t\tAir, gaiety, (musical) air, tune\n\tSciathan's lover, a flyer\n(As English \"Air\". It's also part of \"Aer Lingus\", the airline's name.)\n\n\tGrian:\t\tSun, solar\n\tThe flier who escaped the Trivigauntis\n(Prounounced like \"gree-an\")\n\n\tMear:\t\tQuick, nimble; hasty, rash\n\tOne of the flyers killed by the Trivigauntis\n(Pronounced as English \"mar\".)\n(Note that there is another word, m'ear which means digit or\nfinger. This is pronounced as English \"mare\".)\n\n\tSciathan:\tWing; side; extension; part; arm\n\tThe flier captured by the Trivigauntis\n(\"sci\" pronounced like \"ski\", \"a\" as in \"a\" in \"atlas\" (a short \"ah\")\nand \"than\" with a soft \"th\" (as in \"with\") and rhymes with \"dawn\")\nIrish:\tSciath'an\n\n\tSumaire:\tBlood-sucker, leech; vampire; scrounger;\nswallow-hole; whirlpool\n\tOne of the flyers killed by the Trivigauntis\n(Pronounced roughly like this: \"Sum\" - \"soom\"; \"air\" - a bit like a\ncross between \"ar\" and \"or\" with short vowels; \"e\" - \"eh\" with a short\nvowel.)\nIrish:\tS'umaire\n\n\tI'd meant to post the list sooner, but I kept saying I'd do it\ntomorrow... Well, tomorrow's arrived! :-)\n\n\tTercel\n\nQuestions or problems to whorl-owner at lists.best.com"
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