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ArchivesRe: Indian names relating to fish?
in reply to a message by Miranda
No help here, but just two comments.
Mina vs. Meena In most Indian languages (both Indoeuropean and Dravidian) where vowel length is distinguished, this has a long i. I do not know why this site claims mInAlI to mean fisherman in Sanskrit: I have not seen it in Sanskrit, but I would say, it is not Sanskrit, and in some north Indian languages it would mean `like fish'. mInAkSI does mean with eyes shaped like fish (akSa is eyes, said to be from ash, meaning reach or pervade).
Rajiv meaning fish. The word is from ranj (the n is palatal), to colour, and can be applied to anything striped. It in particular does mean a kind of fish, or of deer, but the only sense most people today will recognize is lotus.
Mina vs. Meena In most Indian languages (both Indoeuropean and Dravidian) where vowel length is distinguished, this has a long i. I do not know why this site claims mInAlI to mean fisherman in Sanskrit: I have not seen it in Sanskrit, but I would say, it is not Sanskrit, and in some north Indian languages it would mean `like fish'. mInAkSI does mean with eyes shaped like fish (akSa is eyes, said to be from ash, meaning reach or pervade).
Rajiv meaning fish. The word is from ranj (the n is palatal), to colour, and can be applied to anything striped. It in particular does mean a kind of fish, or of deer, but the only sense most people today will recognize is lotus.
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