Fellow Shadow Watchers,
As ever, I turn to The List with a problem. I
need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many languages as
possible but to ensure that I get it right, particularly the spelling!!
:-) could I please ask for contributions - although limited t
Tony (and John)
Hmmm, some us Aussies have difficult with spelling and have been know
to call them "sun dials".
BUT, I defer completely and gracefully to John Hall and The Macquarie
Dicitionary (sorry but I don't accept anything from the OED!) who say
"sundial" one word.
Damn, it is dispiri
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Von: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: Sundial Mail List ; Geoff Anderson
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Datum: Mittwoch, 16. Juni 1999 21:41
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>Fellow Shadow Watchers,
> As ever, I turn to The List
Slunecni hodiny - Czech
Sonnenuhr - German
means the same thing - "sun clock"
Mike Koblic,
Quesnel BC
Tony Moss wrote:
> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
>As ever, I turn to The List with a problem. I
> need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many languages as
> possible but to ensure that I get it right, particularly the spelling!!
> :-) could I please ask for contrib
Dear Tony,
>I need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many languages as
>possible but to ensure that I get it right, particularly the spelling!!
>:-) could I please ask for contributions - although limited to western
>style characters for no other reason than my wordprocessor can only
>
Dear Shadow Watchers,
On Friday the 18th, Fernando replied:
>Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote:
>
>> I came also across the word 'semáforo solar'. Is that an incorrect use?
>
>Is this a joke? I can't see any meaning in it. Do you brothers from
>Portugal see any meaning here?
>
>I could imagine an inst
esigns, my own paper dictionary is at a
complete loss.
Rudolf (Ruud) Hooijenga
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From: Tony Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Frederick W. Sawyer III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Rudolf Hooijenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: A dial by any other name...
Rudolf,
The following notice appears in the current issue of The Compendium. It
may be what you are
>The founder of the sundial-mailing-list, Mr. Daniel Roth from Cologne, has
>displayed in his list of the sundials links
>
>http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~roth/slinks.htm
The above URL doesn't work; the following one (note the '.html' ending) does:
http://www.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de/~roth/s
My correspondent in Shanghai says:
> In Chinese, it is called Ri Gui. Ri means sun. Gui means a kind
> of tool to measure something. I will send Chinese characters in
> a file named sundial.bmp.
The .bmp is 38K so I will send it to Tony directly.
John B
Tony,
Many thanks for the wonderful .JPEGs of the "master meridian layout
alidade", your conversion of "the 'machinegun fire director' from the
Vickers gun - a magnificent Canadian bronze instrument" to peaceful
purposes.
As to your request for terminology:
The "rest of" Canada calls the instrum
In Spanish "sundial" is "Reloj de sol".
Another more controversial word exists "Cuadrante Solar".
Tony Moss wrote:
.I need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many
languages as
possible.
Tony,
In Afrikaans its called "Sonwyser", almost like in Dutch, as Dutch is one of
Afrikaans' originating languages.
Totsiens
Anton.
As far as I know this name just applies to the "specially" designed sundials
used in some beaches and swimming pools in Algarve and Madeira island to advise
the most "red" hours... (it was a topic of discussion some time ago too)
The portuguese name is, as Fernando pointed "relogio de sol" (with a
Tony Moss wrote:
>
> Fellow Shadow Watchers,
> ...
> I need to know the correct term for a sundial in as many languages as
> possible
> Tony Moss
Hi Tony,
To translate: sundial sundials
Dutch: zonnewijzer zonnewijzers
A remark to the German word:
German: S
In Portuguese "sundial" is "relógio de sol".
Please, pay attention to the "o" after the "l" to
make sure it is accented with an accute accent.
Maybe it is of interest to add that "relogio de sol" means,
literally, "sun clock", while "sundial", translated literally
as "sun" + "dial" would be so
Peter Mayer wrote:
> Dear Shadow Watchers,
>
> On Friday the 18th, Fernando replied:
>
> >Thibaud Taudin-Chabot wrote:
> >Perhaps a device lost people
> >could use to send signals to airplanes saying indicating they
> >need help. This kind of usage would make sense to me.
> >
> I wonder
From: Frederick W. Sawyer III, 71541,1662
To: "Rudolf Hooijenga", INTERNET:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9/1/99 6:33 PM
RE: Re: A dial by any other name...
Rudolf,
The following notice appears in the current issue of The Compendium. It
may be
what you are l
I send, attached, the image of the word Sundial in Ancient Arabic Language
( Thabit Ibn Qurra 900 a.C.)
--
Ing. Gianni Ferrari
Via Valdrighi, 135
41100 - MODENA ( ITALY )
EMail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Attachment converted: MAC Hard Disk:Arab-sundial.JPG (
Translation in western alphabet :
- modern Arabic Language Sundial =sa'a shamsiyya
- medieval Arabic L Horizontal Sundial = rukhama
(lit. marble) or basita (lit. flat)
Vertical Sundial
= munharifa
S
I have no opinion on Chinese or Basque, but there is no Flemish language.
Flemings live in Flanders (mostly in Belgium) but their language is Dutch.
Spoken Dutch has several regional dialects both in the Netherlands and in
Belgium, but Flemings will insist that their language is Dutch --just as
A
Tony
In Australia we call it a "Sundial" ;-)
The spelling is very much like the way it is spelt in English !
--
John D Hall
School of Architecture - University of Tasmania
Launceston TAS 7250 - AUSTRALIA
Tel (+61) 0363 24 3502Latitude 41d 26m 1s South
Fax (+61) 0363 24 3557
Fellow Shadow Watchers.
Some time ago I requested List members to send me the word/s for 'sundial' in
as many languages as possible with the promise that I would publish the result
via the List when complete - I was unaware of the list already prepared by
Daniel Roth at the time.
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