some Hindi, some Hebrew

mark millman · 04 Dec 2001, 15:27 · from whorl-v0013.mbox · original

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From: mark millman <millman at us.ncipher.com>
Subject: some Hindi, some Hebrew
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 10:27:53 -0500
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"Choora" is a specific word for a type of Afghan military=20
knife, from the region around the Khyber Pass, meant to=20
pierce mail armor; it's single-edged, sharply tapered, and=20
has a reinforced spine.=20

I don't have any idea of what "gaon" might mean in Hin-
di; but I wonder if it mightn't have suggested itself to=20
Wolfe through the association with the Hebrew word=20
"gaon", genius (in the sense of a remarkable intellect, not=20
spirit, as in the Latin _genius loci_).  The word is proba-
bly best known to English-speakers as the epithet of=20
the eighteenth-century Rabbi Eliyahu (Elijah ben Solomon=20
Zalman) of Vilnius, who was known as the Vilna Gaon.=20

Nacre

At 06:10 AM 12/3/2001 -0800, alga wrote:

> Eule wrote:
>
>> Hindu----not so sure about the=20
>> accuracy but fwiw:
>> choora - four (the Rajan's knife)
>
> I can count to ten in Hindi--though I need=20
> a jog to get started. Choora is not four.
>
> [snip]
>
>> gaon - knowledge understanding knowing
>
> [snip]
>
>-alga

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