Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 06:39:58 -0800
From: Michael Andre-Driussi 
Subject: Re: (urth) TBotNS - Pinakotheken

Kipling wrote:
>Book I, chapter v "and the pinakotheken, with their great hallway topped
>with a vaulted roof of window-pirced brick."
>
>After much digging it would seem that pinakothek=picture gallery in
>German, but wouldn't the suffix denote the plural?  or perhaps 'gallery'
>as in chamber, and thus many chambers off a single great hallway?

The OED has nothing; THE NEW YORK TIMES EVERYDAT DICTIONARY OF
MISUNDERSTOOD, MISUSED, AND MISPRONOUNCED WORDS has nothing; MRS. BYRNE'S
DICTIONARY has "pinacotheca" [note spelling] as "a picture gallery";
ROGET'S INTERNATIONAL THESAURUS lists pinakotheke and pinacotheca in group
"museum . . . picture gallery."

I was going to promote the article "Words Weird and Wonderful" in Wolfe's
CASTLE OF THE OTTER (collected in Wolfe's CASTLE OF DAYS), but it doesn't
have that word in it.  I promote it anyway!  (LEXICON URTHUS only says it
is a picture gallery, fwiw.)

There used to be an online wordlist of New Sun words, probably more than
one iirc.  Another resource.

=mantis=


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