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#13943 12/27/00 10:55 PM
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An associate asked me to suggest a suitable name for a horse. He would like something
in a foreign language that perhaps suggests speed.
Can anyone suggest something?
Thankx, Darryl,Australia.


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zardoz, what colour is the horse? Male or female?

Vecteur vitesse / speed vector

If he is black: éclipse

Ouragan / hurricane



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Well, in music, presto is very fast, and prestissimo means the fastest tempo. However, those strike this Derby City gal as rather odd names for horses. "Tempo" doesn't sound bad, come to think of it! I once dated a Turk whose first name was Tufan. He told me it meant typhoon. There's also
Tsunami as a possibility. Let us hear, hear?


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Subject: Re: Name that Horse

An associate asked me to suggest a suitable name for a horse.


I thought the name of a horse had to, in some way, reflect the name of the Sire and Dam.... that not true Down Under?
Off top of my head : Galloping Ghost, (white horse)
Jet Stream, Comet, Meteor ...
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I once dated a Turk whose first name was Tufan. He told me it meant typhoon.

Omigosh, Jackie, you have a past! And here I was thinking you'd married your high school sweetheart.

Actually, the word 'tufan' is probably of Arabic/Persian origin. The only reason I say this is that toophan (as it is conventionally spelt in India) means a violent storm in Hindi/Urdu.

For Sankritised Hindi, perhaps Sheegrataa will do - meaning 'with speed', or rapidity.

For parodic 'pure' Hindi, try Lohapat gamini - 'iron-path traveller' (train).

Laukar - 'quickly' or 'hurry' in Marathi.

Vaaraa - 'wind' in Marathi. Hawa is the same thing in Hindi.

Vajra (Sanskrit) - thunderbolt.

For pronunciation, please note that in virtually all Indian languages there is no distinction between 'w' and 'v' - the sound is produced by the lips alone, without the upper teeth resting on the lower lip. (You will figure out that a similar 'confusion' therefore affects 'f', which sounds more like 'pph'.)

cheer

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Kilat -- the Indonesian for lightning.

Wasn't there a Greek storm monster called Typhon, who was the origin of typhoon?

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You could, of course, be optimistic and call it "Pharlap" (if a galloper) or "Cardigan Bay" (if a trotter or pacer). But then it would need to have been born in New Zealand, wouldn't it?

An Australian friend called his horse (not a race horse, just a hack) "Digeridoo" because it was always passing wind ... he would probably have called it Jetstream for the same reasons if it was a racer!



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"I've got the horse right here, his name is Paul Revere,
And there's a guy that says if the weather's clear:
Can do, can do, this guy says the horse can do,
If he says the horse can do, can do, can do."



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