Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"

Pavel Bakič · 24 Apr 2008, 17:20 · from 2008-April.txt.gz

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From: pavelbak at gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Pavel_Baki=E8?=)
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:20:22 +0200
Subject: (urth) Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"
Message-ID: <73d3d6710804241020k7c71f1a0u6fd02ac36c946de4 at mail.gmail.com>

A question for the first-language speakers out there: We have a discussion
going on concerning a proper rendering of the word "Urth" into Czech, and
would appreciate any comments concerning the connotations the word has for a
native speaker, apart form the obvious "Earth". An existing translation of *The
Shadow of the Torturer* has "Urzem?", which translates literally as
"Ur-Earth" (without the repetition of the "r" phoneme or the
"vowel-consonant[s]" syllable structure, of course).

I *did *search for previous threads concerning the topic, but the fact of
the archive-site being itself called Urth made it somewhat difficult.
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