[Assam] Elephant Baby Name

[Barua25]

You mean 'Ajoli' with one A which I think Americans will prefer.
That is a good name.
RB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chan Mahanta" <cmahanta at charter.net>
To: <Assam at assamnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Assam] Elephant Baby Name


> A baby was born to Ellie and Raja, a pair of Asian elephants at the
> St. Louis Zoo. There is a naming contest afoot.
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> >This is what I posted at :
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>http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/news-talk-of-the-day/2006/08/its-a-girl-eleph
ant-what-would-you-name-her/comment-page-53/#comments
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> >Mine was post # 264
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> >I propose Aajoli.
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> >"Aajoli" means 'simple, harmless, innocent, childlike etc.' in the
> >Assamese language.
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> >I was told that Ellie, the mother, came from Assam state, from
> >India's north-eastern frontier. Assam is home to a large remaining
> >contingent of Asian elephants. It is also home to many endangered
> >species, like the one horned Asian rhino. So I thought an Assamese
> >name, easy on the American tongue, will do justice to the elephant
> >calf, obviously a darling to us St. Louisans.
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> >Furthermore, the Aajoli name sounds intuitively related to both Raja
> >( the daddy) and Ellie ( the mom).
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> >Of course the fact that I too am a native of Assam and the Assamese
> >language is my mother-tongue, has absolutely nothing to do with my
> >choice :-).
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