Re: nandini and nandana
in reply to a message by Anneza
Interesting. Did not know that. A little checking shows that nandina is from Japanese 南天 composed of:
unicode: 0x5357 21335
pron.: *nom||naam4|nan2|NAN2 NA1|NAM|nam|NAN DAN|MINAMI
south; southern part; southward
and
unicode: 0x5929 22825
pron.: *ten||tin1|tian1 tian5|TIAN1|CHEN|thiên|TEN|AME SORA
sky, heaven; god, celestial