Re: Interesting Words
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 7, 2001, 11:02 |
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En réponse à Elliott Lash <AL260@...>:
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> I guess that's it, or at least I can't remember more.
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It seems to me (I may be wrong) that Japanese also has lots of words for the
moon, but also a lot for the sun, mostly of them being reserved for personal
names, compounds and the like, poetry and such (off-hand, I remember 'ni'
in 'Nihon': Japan, 'nichi' in 'nichiyoubi': Sunday, 'Ohiko' and 'Taiyou' that
I've seen used as personal names, and of course 'Amaterasu', the Sun Goddess).
Christophe.
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