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Sraat, Morin and Saran: Their meaning and origin?
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:00 pm
by zulkarneyn
Greetings Rockbrothers and Rocksisters,
Lore+sraat, Morin+moss and Saran+grave... Do you have any idea what the underlined words mean? Tried searching the dictionaries but could find nothing related with the context.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:22 pm
by danlo
Can't really help u, but the way u just broke apart Sarangrave conjured up images of a place where all the "shrink-wrap" goes 2 die! HAHAHA! But wouldn't: sraat possibily come from another langauge? German, Dutch perhaps?
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 2:58 pm
by Sevothtarte
None of these is german... or if they are, they're ancient, I never heard them.
Posted: Thu Jan 02, 2003 3:46 pm
by amanibhavam
I think it's not sraat but raat - German, Dutch for council
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2003 1:28 am
by zulkarneyn
Hail,
amanibhavam wrote:I think it's not sraat but raat - German, Dutch for council
this is quite logical.
I have first searched this one on the net and come up with sraat=street. But then I have realized that the sraats I came up on the net were just "straat" (which is "street" in Dutch) typed incorrectly.
Many thanks amanibhavam.
But what about "sarangrave". Am I making a mistake in dividing words just as the mistake I did in "loresraat" - which should have been "lore's raat"? How should I divide it? What about Sarang+ Rave? UH I am completely lost here.
BUt I am sure about Morin+moss. Then what is Morin?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:18 pm
by danlo
I know this is an ancient thread but I came across something very fast the other day on PBS that said Saran is a tree, or something, found in India--will have to research further...
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 3:22 pm
by hierachy
tree-grave
lores-council
VERY injtresting, I'd never even thaught about that!
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 9:23 pm
by Forestal
ohhh... liking that
tree-grave and lores-coucil, very cool
now what could morin mean... hmmm.... no i'm at a loss, time for some searching...
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2003 11:14 pm
by Landwaster
I'm in agreeance with the idea of sraat being dutch as it immediately said 'south african' to me, and their language has a lot of dutch in it.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:42 pm
by Cloudberry
Morin is a family name of French origin. There was a celtic people called Moriner (sp?) living in Normandy and Flanders. That's all I come to think of right now.
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 7:09 pm
by Skyweir
i think Saringrave .. is more likely synonymous for Tree - grove ..
sounds better to me anyway
LOL
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:34 pm
by danlo
well if it was a grove it surely was a grave after the Ravers were through with it-and I'm sure Fouls vile Defile sewage brightened up the place as well!**lurk, lurk**
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 7:09 pm
by Forestal
quite!
