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in reply to a message by "Bagpus"
"Cast" doesn't mean "race". The word you're thinking of is "caste", which has a very different and far more recent etymology (too recent to be an English place name).
Have a look at:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cast
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caste
From what Kynaston said, I think that he/she's saying that Burgh Castle was originally a Roman castle. The Whitecast marshes are nearby, as you discovered.
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
Have a look at:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cast
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caste
From what Kynaston said, I think that he/she's saying that Burgh Castle was originally a Roman castle. The Whitecast marshes are nearby, as you discovered.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
This message was edited 4/14/2005, 6:54 AM
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Chisell is right, and the word 'caste' doesn't deal specifically with race.
Cast means only, a cast in a play.
Caste is the word used to decribe the different levels of people within the Hindu religion. Caste even comes from a Brahman, or early Hindu term. This idea of caste wasn't introduced to the Brittans until their knowledge of the levels within Hinduism...
now if i had my essay which i accidently deleted... i could tell you where the word caste came from, lol.
Cast means only, a cast in a play.
Caste is the word used to decribe the different levels of people within the Hindu religion. Caste even comes from a Brahman, or early Hindu term. This idea of caste wasn't introduced to the Brittans until their knowledge of the levels within Hinduism...
now if i had my essay which i accidently deleted... i could tell you where the word caste came from, lol.
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Check the link I provided - caste is from the Portuguese, who applied it to the class system they encountered in their first contacts with the Indians.
:-)
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
:-)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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you forgot the link
Oh man, the word I was thinking of is varna
Varna is the Indian word,
caste is a European term, as chrisell said
but i wanna see that link, where did they get the word caste from
might be helpful in our demasking of whitecast
Oh man, the word I was thinking of is varna
Varna is the Indian word,
caste is a European term, as chrisell said
but i wanna see that link, where did they get the word caste from
might be helpful in our demasking of whitecast
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Lol - it was in the post before the one you replied to. But nevermind, here it is again:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caste
:-)
♦ Chrisell ♦
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=caste
:-)
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.
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doh! lol thx!!
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