--- In [email protected], cardemaister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Ralph Griffith's translation of Rgveda I 164 1:
> 
> "1. OF this benignant Priest, with eld grey-coloured, the brother
> midmost of the three is lightning.
> The third is he whose back with oil is sprinkled. Here I behold 
> the Chief with seven male children."
> 
> What could "eld" mean? It seems to be a typo. In Swedish
> "eld" means "fire".

Definitions of eld on the Web:

* old age: a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; 
"he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; 
"a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"

* age: a time in life (usually defined in years) at which some
particular qualification or power arises; "she was now of school 
age"; "tall for his eld" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn






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