Subject:  	a thought about Jiku-shiru
Date: 	Sun, 23 Feb 1997 19:06:13 -0800 (PST)
From: 	David Melik 



One thing I noticed, in my last post I said "Jiku-shirese", "shirese" is
sort of like "shire", and if the original people were halflings.  Where
halflings live, they seem to organize themselves into shires.  Shiru could
be the word shire changed over time, and Jiku could be what they call
themselves, so maybe it would be called "Peoples Shires" jik could be
person, shir could be shire, "u" could indicate plural. (Since halflings
name their shires, it could have another meaning like jiku could be "sun"
for "shires of the sun", someone with an appropriate dictionary could figure
this out.)  Maybe there could be all sorts of other shiru throughout
Jiku-Shiru.  Then when other people arrived, they called it what the locals
called it (but maybe we want the name to have to do with the hero and
emperor story,or something else entirely).  I don't know if "shire" would be
considered an Occidental or purely halfling word on Mystara, I guess whether
this is used or not may depend on where and when these halflings migrated
from (which I don't recall).  I don't know much about Oriental languages,
but there's my 2 cents on what it could mean.  Ultimately I guess the
Jiku-Shiru group (whoever they are, please let us know) will decide or
compile different meanings and let us vote.

David Melik
Darwin@.nwinfo.net