--- 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 To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
