Re: Haitch is for Hero? NOT!

From: Loren Miller <loren_at_wharton.upenn.edu>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:02:27 +0000

Chris Lemens writes:

> I would not the same linguistic similarities that
> another thread noted sometime back about Umath (Ur-math), Humakt (Ur-makt),
> Orlanth (Ur-lanth), and (most blatantly) Urox (Ur-ox).
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> "Ernalda" seems awfully far spread for an earth mother figure.

Formerly I had believed that the letter H was the surefire giveaway for Heroic figures on Glorantha (cv orlantH, argratH, Humakt, Harrek, sartarH). Now I realize that UR is the surefire giveaway.

UR-rek
UR-grath
s-UR-tar

UR-math
UR-makt
UR-lanth
UR-ox
UR-nalda
UR-ilm
UR-kargzant
UR-zrelia

and trust the elder races to bollox everything up by putting the URs at the end of some of their names

kyg-UR lit-UR
z-UR-ak z-UR-an
UR-gan UR-gar
xiola UR-mbar
UR-dryad = aldrya

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