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Started by Richard Seltzer
Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:21
translation problem
Author: Richard Seltzer
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:21
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:21
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I'm just finishing translating a 350-page book, and a handful of words,
which don't appear in any of my dictionaries, are giving me headaches.
Three refer to specific kinds of edible grain:
poa
elevzin
kogo
Another word, from context, seems to mean a platform or storage area for grain:
kluni (plural)
One refers to part of the anatomy of a goat:
zhigo or dzhigo
One is a proper name, refering to ancient rulers of Egypt:
ed vocab.txt
Mesraim (could this be a form of the name Moses?)
One refers to a surveying procedure:
nonius
One refers to a kind of perfume:
santal ("The queen other was heavily scented with attar of roses and santal.")
And for this one the dictionary entry is no help:
sal'nik
The Oxford Russian-English Dictionary renders this as "1. (anat.) epiploon,
2. (tech.) stuffing box, (packing) gland"
"Epiploon" is an obscure English word that sends one on a merry chase through
the unabridged dictionary. It appears to be some sort of growth attached to
the stomach and the colon and hanging over the small intestine.
This word appears in two different contexts in the book I'm translating.
First, it is the organ of an animal (probably a ram), which an Ethiopian witch
doctor hangs around his neck as a charm.
Second, it is an organ of a ram which can be used to make candles. ("Iz
zhirnogo baran'yego kurdyuka my bytopili salo, iz sal'nika zhe ego sdelali
svechi..."
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Richard Seltzer seltzer@ics.dec.com
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Re: translation problem
Author: Alan D Corre
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:40
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 10:40
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In article <1993Jan5.201850.537@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> seltzer@ics.enet.dec.com (Richard Seltzer) writes: > >I'm just finishing translating a 350-page book, and a handful of words, >which don't appear in any of my dictionaries, are giving me headaches. >One is a proper name, refering to ancient rulers of Egypt: >ed vocab.txt >Mesraim (could this be a form of the name Moses?) > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > >Thank you. > >Richard Seltzer seltzer@ics.dec.com >-- or -- ...!decwrl!ics.dec.com!seltzer >-- or -- seltzer%ics.enet.dec.com Mesraim is the Hebrew name of Egypt, more commonly Misraim. The Arabic name of Egypt is Misr. The Hebrew form is a dual, presumably referring to the traditional two Egypts, upper and lower. There is no connexion whatever with the name of Moses. -- Alan D. Corre Department of Hebrew Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (414) 229-4245 PO Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 corre@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
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