Re: Similar (was: 'useful') languages

 daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> writes:

> > Has anyone else come across this phenomenon?
>
> Googling for "Rinya" gets me 4,160 hits, of which
> one is my old website and 4,159 are sites in Japanese.
> It seems Rinya is a Japanese name, but does it mean
> anything?
I dont know about Japanese, but in Silindion (or more specifically, High
Silindion, the language of the court and of religion), it would mean "his
fountain"

rin "fountain" -nya "his" > rinya

In Low Silindion the word would be: rimanya
rima + nya

> Seimi is a marine equipment company, a Danish theater
> director and something of unknown meaning in both
> Estonian and Finnish.
In Finnish, my first guess was that it had something to do with the "Lappish"
people (and I know that "Lappish" is not the most correct of terms), but
subsequent research has shown that Seimi means 'day-care, day-nursery, manger'
in Finnish and Sami means "Lappish"

Elliott Lash