Grotestad and Grandecitta

Andrew Mason · 08 Feb 2011, 21:31 · from 2011-February.txt.gz

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From: andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com (Andrew Mason)
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 21:31:26 +0000
Subject: (urth) Grotestad and Grandecitta
Message-ID: <AANLkTinOzN=r=ZfZBHsyq6dphgSYApVSh3V-o8gVp8OV at mail.gmail.com>

Gerry Quinn wrote:
Gerry Quinn wrote.

>> Curious... the two whorl city names we do know how to parse both mean 'Big
>> City'.
>
> There's also Urbs, which I suppose just means 'city'. And 'Viron' might come
> from 'environment' (c.f. Brian Aldiss's 'Total Environment').
>
> Methinks Typhon's planners had the imagination typical of bureaucrats...

Also Gens, 'tribe', and Wick 'settlement' or the like. On the other
hand, as well as Trivigaunte there is Palustria, 'marshland', and the
original Pajarocu. Perhaps other gods chose those names - presumably
Sphigx did for Trivigaunte.

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