Re: [silk] african names - iht

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Alok G. Singh [09/10/07 12:54 +0530]:

On  9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Huchamma -> Mad woman

I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but
'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy.

And the thippeswami referred to a swami (holy man) in chitradurga district
of karnataka who used to meditate on a dung heap - on the principle that
dung and gold were all the same to an ascectic.