OBW: Captain Strik and Toter, and the Hindi names

Matthew Groves · 13 Oct 2008, 02:51 · from 2008-October.txt.gz

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From: matthewalangroves at gmail.com (Matthew Groves)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:51:32 -0500
Subject: (urth) OBW: Captain Strik and Toter, and the Hindi names
Message-ID: <39ed084f0810121951u4302f66du8e9cdabaeced8f81 at mail.gmail.com>

I'm rerereading *TBotSS*.  On the way to Pajarocu Horn encounters Captain
Strik's boat.  Strik is from Dorp ('town' in Dutch), the quasi-Dutch
village.  Strik means 'noose,' and his son's name is Toter, 'corpse.'  Is
this another reference to the Flying Dutchman?

I've made some headway with the Hindi names.  I don't think I've seen some
of these on the list yet.  I'm also adding them to the
WolfeWiki<http://www.wolfewiki.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=TheBookOfTheShortSun.Names>.
Can anyone fill in the blanks?
Alubukhara - plum (lit. 'fruit of Bukhara')
Bahar - fat? spring?  ('Baahar' means 'outside' and 'bahaar' means Spring
(season), but the Rajan says his name is 'fat.')
Barsat - monsoon?
Chaku - ?
Chandi - silver
Chota - small
Darjan - ?
Hari Mau - ?
Gaon - town
Hoop - ?
Jahlee - fake, counterfeit
Kilhari - ?
Lal - red
Mahawat - = mahout - elephant driver
Mehman - guest?
Moti - pearl
Nadi - river
Namak - salt
Nauvan - ?
Pehla - first
Rajan - king
Rajya Mantri - royal minister
Roti - bread
Somvar - Monday
Zeehra - flower (She's the gardeners daughter.)

Matt
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