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#122732 03/03/04 05:49 AM
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AlimaeHP, here is an online Sumerian dictionary. http://www.sumerian.org/sumerlex.htm. I hope this helps you in your quest.

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My father was a historian as well as a scholar, it was he who named me Wow, and he must really have loved you! Looketh, from Bingley's link:

pa: leaf, bud, sprout; branch; wing; feather
i*: v., to capture, defeat, overcome
la: abundance, luxury, wealth; youthful freshness and beauty; bliss, happiness; wish, desire
ní: self; body; one's own


*I am wondering whether he perhaps put an i so that the word might "read" better in English. Look at one of the def.'s for é: é: house, household; temple; plot of land Although the noun version of i might have been literal: i: n., cry of pain


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Bingly,
The website was very informative if not slightly confusing to me, yet greatly appreciated. Thank you for locating the site and for informing me of its existence, for it has been enabled me to complete my quest.

Jackie,
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for figuring this out for me, I actually took a look at it last night and was confused by it. Then again this might have had something to do with the fact that my mind was in shut down mode due to lack of sleep.
It is amazing to me that my life mirrors the meaning of my name so closely. Going off of this I would have to say that my father wanted the
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noun version of i
might have been literal: i : n., cry of pain”


For everyone else whom assisted in my endeavor,
Thank you for taking time out of your day to offer suggestions, advice or encouragement. It has been received with great exhilaration. I find myself feeling in debated to all.

Rev. Alimae



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pa: leaf, bud, sprout; branch; wing; feather
i*: v., to capture, defeat, overcome
la: abundance, luxury, wealth; youthful freshness and beauty; bliss, happiness; wish, desire
ní: self; body; one's own


This is not exactly how I would go about doing this if I were you, but to each her/his own. Picking single syllables out of a short, online dictionary and concatenating them doesn't necessarily give you a Sumerian name or even a word. I wonder what AlimaeHP's dad did. Was he an ANE historian or a Sumerologist? When I first looked at the string pailani, as little as I know about Sumerian, I thought what's that diphthong doing there. I couldn't find any example of 'ai' in the online Sumerian Lexicon. Not saying it doesn't exist, just if it does, it's rare. I wonder if there are two roots: pail and ani, or pai and lani. Couldn't find either. This weekend, I going to the university library to renew my card, and I'll take a look at a bigger Sumerian lexicon.


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I must confess, when it comes to languages other then Latin, and English, I know very little. I would be very interested in seeing what you are ably to discover. I appreciate your taking the time to go to the library to research this for me. As for whether or not my father was an ANE historian or a Sumerologist, I believe, and I may be wrong, that he was a Sumerologist.
“I wonder if there are two roots: pail and ani, or pai and lani.” From the understanding that I do poses, which is very little, my name is a compilation of two words, so yet again this makes more sense. Though it is interesting as well as exciting to see what a breakdown of the letters would give; especially considering this is farther then I have ever gotten in my search.

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we recently had a thread about izing everything.

So you might say eta took "word" and etaoinized it.


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I guess that puts the izing on the cake...



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Lol Etaoin.

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my name means *****=princess *****=bright *******=son of grace, or possibly love, there is some dispute.

a shiny new penny to anyone who PMs me and fills in the blanks.


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