From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 23 0:28: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix3-2.free.fr (postfix3-2.free.fr [213.228.0.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBE8D37B412 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 00:28:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-3-62-147-136-49.dial.proxad.net [62.147.136.49]) by postfix3-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD253184B0 for ; Thu, 23 May 2002 09:28:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 769 invoked by uid 1001); 23 May 2002 07:27:55 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 09:27:55 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sanskrit numbers (was: French, Flemish and English (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)) Message-ID: <20020523072754.GA676@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20020522192335.P47352@lpt.ens.fr> <20020522215236.GA1640@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523144550.C230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523062640.GB237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523161854.J230@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020523161854.J230@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.6-PRERELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg 'groggy' Lehey said on May 23, 2002 at 16:18:54: > Yes, I suppose so. What's "goose"? Good question. I don't know. I think the usual word in Hindi is "batak" but that really means duck rather than goose. > I have a (very good) Indian goose recipe which has been called > "Khubab Hans", though I don't know what language that is. "Hans" is unquestionably "swan" in primary meaning, and the only meaning in Hindi as far as I know, but perhaps it means goose too in Sanskrit. My Sanskrit dictionary (V G Apte) does not say so, but a Monier-Williams Sanskrit dictionary which I found online gives that meaning. But I haven't heard of either goose or swan as a food item in India (even duck is rather uncommon, the only widespread bird is chicken). > Well, of course there's a word for flying swan: fliegender Schwan. OK, what I was told (by a German) was that "Hansa" does not mean swan; but she did not know the meaning you describe, the political and commercial league. - Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message