![]() ![]() ![]() Hindu Chalk Art I: kolam, rangoli, etc.I am rather pleased with the decision to make the swoosh of the a cut into one side instead of blending it in. The other option was bioras, which was harder to work with, so I went with cuirinín. Since it really had nothing to do with the meaning of Leann's name and because it made the name much too long for an ambigram ( Laigháine has four more letters than Leann), I decided to forgo it. I briefly thought about adding laigh, which means "bed" ( source, scroll down) and is etymologically related to the English word lie (as in lie down). See the first batch, which are English–Thai ambigrams, here. Almost as an afterthought I made it green and added a Stargazer lily to the end. I finally settled on having it be a swoosh coming off the n of Lillian. I played around a lot with that to incorporate it. But that left the c completely unmatched. Combining the ir into the a was pretty obvious and that left the u and the n for each other, which wasn't hard to do. That left me with four letters ( cuir-) to match to two ( -an). It was one letter longer than Lillian's name, but to make matters worse, it was just too convenient to use the is as reverses for each other and the ns in cuirinín for the ls in Lillian. The of the two translations of the word lily into Old Irish, I chose cuirinín. ![]()
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