IGA names The Whorl list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 23 Jul 2000 https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/whorl/865 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 — 23 Jul 2000, 14:26 Adatta: adapting, adjusting Affito: permitting Atteno: (prob. a typo for attento, careful, attentive) Blanko: (either a typo for blanco, white, or another language, non-romance) Badour Bricco: coffee pot (check this in the big one) Bruna: brown, gloomy Cantoro: singing Casco: helmet Cugino: cousin Cuoio: leather (hide) Decina: ten Dentro: within (inside) Eco: echo Fava: bean Gagliardo: bold, strong Gioioso: joyous, merry Gorak Grandecitta: bigcity Incanto: enchanted (or ing) Inclito: inclining, sloping Jahlee: Jalia=Evil, Life-Destroyer, South Indian goddess of death and disease who can be appeased if propitiated properly. (This is an alternate spelling; his spelling for Meschia/ne was also offbeat, though perfectly recognizable.) Karabin: a karabiner is a metal spring-hook (Ger.) Karn Krait: venomous snake (Eng., from Hindi) Kupus Legaro: tied, fastened Mano: hand Mora: blackberry Morello: jet-black Olmo: elm Onorifica: honored Perito: expert, skilful Poliso: (could be a typo for polso, energetic) Rigoglio: bloom, luxuriance Rimo: (rima is rhyme; this, in a bigger dictionary might mean rimed or icy) Salica: willow (Lat.) Sborso: payment, outlay (from purse) Schiamazza: cackling, squawking Sfido: challenging (also, of course) Soldo: wages, money (an old Italian coin) Solenno: being solemn Terzo: third Torda: thrush (as tordo, m.; check this too if the character is f.--wouldn't be a bird--if m. a typo) Turco: Turk (granturco is maize or corn) Ugolo: (looks Italian, but I can't find it) Urbanita: civility Valico: passing, crossing (also passport) Vivo: alive, lively Volanta: flying Volto: turned (also, face) Warren: (Eng. place where rabbits breed) Wight: (Eng. a being from a demon to a shrewmouse; as adj. strong, powerful-OED) Zepter Zitta: silent *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------