Peter Our generous maiordomo, tolerant to sidetracks frequent on this list, maintains a partial list of sundial names in different tongues in the good city of Koeln
http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~roth/slinks.html The list is far from being complete but still it is something. Not every language does have to have a name for sundial. I heard that Eskimoe language has many terms to describe different kinds of snow but there is no generic word `snow'. This is OK because snow is ubiquitous in polar climes so having separate word for it does not bring in any information. In the Theory of Information lack of signal or constant signal carries zero information. Slawek At 01:03 PM 8/31/99 +0930, Peter Mayer wrote: >Dear dialists, > > I've lost the thread now, but a while back someone was collecting >names for dials in different languages. I was looking for something >completely different a while back and chanced upon Winslow's Tamil & >English Dictionary. Unfortunately it is only Tamil-to-English. But I made >a fruitful guess, dredged up my rusty Tamil and found it. In my pedantic >transliteration it is: suuriiya kaDii-haaram. A less accurate but more >graceful rendition would be: suriya kadiharam. (lit. sun clock). > >cheers, > >Peter Mayer > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Peter Mayer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Politics Department | >University of Adelaide | 'phone:+61.8 8303 5606/5610 >Adelaide, SA 5005 | FAX: (+61.8) 8303 3446 >AUSTRALIA | >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Slawek Grzechnik 32 57.4'N 117 08.8'W http://home.san.rr.com/slawek
