Hello all, I'm new to the group,and do share a great love and passion for India,it's culture,and all the traditional areas and peoples which make up that most...
... <heike.boedeker@n...> ... Tha! - ... I don't recognise that one. How do you spell 'Phon' in Thai? My favourite nautical coincidence is Thai (pla: M) wa:n...
Those are from the handy Thai-english dictionary I've got. We may not be settled unless we have a Thai speaker who may respond. The (h) in the (h)tha! leh ...
... And the hyphen probably means middle tone. In normal speech, the whole word is said with the middle tone. I presume the '!' denotes a glottal stop. In...
... It is in page 349 of ALLISON-JUMBO ENGLISH-THAI DICTIONARY, by Gordon H. Allison, published Feb. 1973, Bangkok, Thailand. Here are the entries: seaman...
Following your discussion I'd like to add, that simple words are not enough to construct relations of the kind you'd like to see, especially when we are ...
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... with ... equivalent ... (nor ... silent ... dictionaries. ... Gordon ... is ... (HAN) ... REUA = 'boat' PHON THA HAN = 'private', as in the lowest rank in...
... rMa ... Wonderful, thanks for the notes. BTW I noticed that 'tri' seems to mean 'first' in Thai. Why? That is interesting (the possible explanation) and...
... not enough ... when we are ... different ... Rightly said, but that is the exact challenge for researchers or for some others enough to give up. We just...
... most ... academic ... = ... Because in this case English counts in the opposite order to Thai. When suffixed to ranks, Thai counts down from senior to...
... You mean the 'tri' word there comes from English 'three' as to mean 'high'. Recent word borrowings from English for a simple Thai 'triad' concept. ... ...
I have updated the URL and also created a pdf file (2mb). Please scroll down to page 4 onwards. http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/bhairava1.pdf The prakrit...
... Thai. ... No. The word's from Pali. Traditionally Thai had the Pali numbers available for specials uses, e.g. the four ranks from 'admiral' (rank 1) to...
... (rank ... sequence ... Thanks that was educational (for now). You may have just introduced me perhaps to an exciting theory of Thai borrowings from Pali. I...
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_867992.html Stolen mummies returned Archaeologists are celebrating after a stolen collection of mummified human remains...
Following your discussion I'd like to repeat my recent remark, that simple words are not enough to construct relations of the kind you'd like to see, ...
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Paul Where were the mumies/skeletons taken in the 1960s? The story did not say. Robin Day p.manansala@... wrote: ...
... Thai ... No, Thai borrows from Sanskrit, not vice versa. Thai borrows from both Sanskrit and Pali, and often it is not clear which a word comes from. In...
This note reminds me that there is information in the math of an artifact. The design and math of an object or space implies a level of mathematical knowledge....
s'ankha, turbinella pyrum. A burial of a woman in Mehergarh dated to 6500 BCE reported by Jarrige, shows a s'ankha bangle.S'ankha kr.s'a_na (interpreted...
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=588&art_id=iol1078376795319P146&set_id=1 The Borobodur replica ship Sailing the Cinnamon Route March 04 2004 at 07:06AM...
Vis'vakarma artisan guilds and merchants from Meluhha http://www.hindunet.org/saraswati/tagaraka1.pdf Sprout (kolom) with three petals and taberna montana...
Why would a metal saw be necessary to cut a bangle from a giant conch, Turbinella? The people of Mexico did it in pre-Hispanic times, the star shaped shell...
In EITE, Oppenheimer discusses the use of neck rings or torcs both in Austronesia and northern Europe. On the island of Nias they make elaborate neck rings,...
Here comparing the Maori tauihu (war canoe prow) and amulet designs from northern Europe (Scandinavian, Pictish, Celtic, etc.). Tauihu Celtic Triskele Taurapa ...
Modern pendants based on Nordic and Celtic knot motifs Takraw wicker balls using three way weaving creating a triangular structure rather than the square grid...
... Apparently they were absorbed. There are still some surnames which give indication of Pictish heritage. David MacRitchie has a good book, _Ancient and...
James Hornell theorized that ships in the Pacific and those of the Vikings presented evidence of long-range cultural contact. He noted a series of similarities...
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