(urth) Etymology/meaning/onomatopoeic aspects of the word "Urth"
Mo Holkar / UKG
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Thu Apr 24 10:59:12 PDT 2008
At 18:20 24/04/2008, you wrote:
>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 "Urzemì", 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.
The main extra connotation is that Urth is the
name of one of the Norns -- Verthandi and Skuld being the others:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norns
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