If you had presented the
following list to me, I could not have told you what they refer to.
I
hope you are better informed than I.
LARI MANAT DRAM TENGE SUM
If you are still
puzzled (no googling, mind), maybe the following additions will help
you:
TUGRIK TOLAR LAY KUNA LITAS
6 comments:
Household Gods? No, that's Lares et Penates (if memory serves - and I think it does in this case).
No, Don't know.
Would it help if I added LEI and FORINT?
Doesn't seem to have done. LEI is, I think, a garland used in the South Sea Islands, whereas FORINT, in East Anglia is used to indicate someone who lives outside your own village. No, sorry; no further forrard, I'm afraid.
No reason why you should know these, Mike, and a lot of them were new to me too. Sadly a lot of sister words of this kind have disappeared with the introduction of the euro: lovely words like zloty, koruna and peseta. Damn progress!
btw, LEI is the plural form of LEU, the former currency of Romania. You are right, though, that a lei is a garland of flowers. On my first day in Thailand, years back, one was put round my neck, and I kept it on during a whole day of lecturing to a class of diminutive Thai beauties. I looked quite pretty too for once!
Well done Jake! I got totally hung up on it as a sentence of some sort. Should have worked it out, specially from the 'Tolar' which I take it is a form of the old 'taler'. I suppose they are both related to the 'dollar'. Bring back guineas and crowns and ha'pence, say I. Knew just where you were with those.
Post a Comment