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in reply to a message by Bex
Interesting: according to a baby name site, Brishen is Gypsy and means `born during rain' and according to a probably more reputable web page, Brushíndo is rain in some romani dialect. And since the gypsies trace their origin to a little band that left western India for Romania and Greece, and thence to Europe (where they were thought to have come from Egypt), I find it relevant that varSaNa means rain in Sanskrit and its derivatives are still the common words for rain in western India. The root in Sanskrit is vRS, to rain, and has been used in the Rgveda and has Indoeuropean cognates.
May be some baby name sites are sometimes correct.
Off the main topic, since rain marked the turning of the seasons most clearly in the Indian climate, the same root also gave words meaning `year', and since rain complemented the female (being the directly evident source in food production) generative principle of the earth, it figuratively stood for the sprinkling of male generative principle, and gave rise to common terms for male, virile, powerful, and ox.
May be some baby name sites are sometimes correct.
Off the main topic, since rain marked the turning of the seasons most clearly in the Indian climate, the same root also gave words meaning `year', and since rain complemented the female (being the directly evident source in food production) generative principle of the earth, it figuratively stood for the sprinkling of male generative principle, and gave rise to common terms for male, virile, powerful, and ox.
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