(urth) Grotestad and Grandecitta

Andrew Mason andrew.mason53 at googlemail.com
Tue Feb 8 13:31:26 PST 2011


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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