Page 1 of 2

Aina and Language.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:45 pm
by AuraTwilight
Just decided to share different meanings of the word "Aina" to get some crazy speculation underway.

'Aina, a word in the Arabic language meaning where?
'aina, a word in the Hawaiian language meaning land, or soil (Earth).
Aina, a word in the Swahili language meaning kind, sort, class, or type.
Aina, a word in the Finnish language meaning always.
'aina is swedish slang for the police.
Aina, a word in the Assyrian language meaning eye.
Aina means "life" in the Malagasy language ( spoken in Madagascar )

Yes, I know, I'm amazing. Now discuss.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:48 pm
by haseoxth
whoa....wonder what she really is...CC2 most likely picked her name for a reason...with a meaning...

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:53 pm
by TheSorrow
o.O And i thought it was just a name as original as Haseo...

If you take all the meaning and rearrange it, it sounds like if Aina means "Eye that always lives in the land of its kind"

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:55 pm
by haseoxth
TheSorrow wrote:o.O And i thought it was just a name as original as Haseo...

If you take all the meaning and rearrange it, it sounds like if Aina means "Eye that always lives in the land of its kind"
O_O..the eye refering to morganna....the land refering to the world....and its kind refering to AIs?

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:56 pm
by TheSorrow
haseoxth wrote:
TheSorrow wrote:o.O And i thought it was just a name as original as Haseo...

If you take all the meaning and rearrange it, it sounds like if Aina means "Eye that always lives in the land of its kind"
O_O..the eye refering to morganna....the land refering to the world....and its kind refering to AIs?
It could be...I just arranged the meanings and formed that word, and with the description you gave to each, it surely makes sense

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:57 pm
by haseoxth
well find out in about a week wont we....

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:57 pm
by Shirosaki
TheSorrow wrote:o.O And i thought it was just a name as original as Haseo...

If you take all the meaning and rearrange it, it sounds like if Aina means "Eye that always lives in the land of its kind"
Wow... that´s an good observation.
But I think all of them connect to her, in some way.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:59 pm
by death angel
wow! i thoght the word aina didn't mean anything.oh and TheSorrow never would think of that.Amazing

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:01 pm
by haseoxth
i noticed that TheSorrow didnt use the poilce thing....maybe Aina must "police"the place where her kind live...as in watch over it...think about it.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:07 pm
by Annwyn
I particularly like the Finnish one. But that's probably just because I :heart: Suomi.

Though in terms of definition, I like the Malagasy one.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:07 pm
by TheSorrow
haseoxth wrote:i noticed that TheSorrow didnt use the poilce thing....maybe Aina must "police"the place where her kind live...as in watch over it...think about it.
I didnt use the slang because of it being a...well...slang. Usually slangs are just misformations of language and mean nothing truly

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:08 pm
by Shirosaki
So if it was completed then it would be "watching eye that always lives in the land of its kind", after all the job of a policeman is to watch over the people, I´m starting to think this combination will result on an area phrase.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:20 pm
by haseoxth
TheSorrow wrote:
haseoxth wrote:i noticed that TheSorrow didnt use the poilce thing....maybe Aina must "police"the place where her kind live...as in watch over it...think about it.
I didnt use the slang because of it being a...well...slang. Usually slangs are just misformations of language and mean nothing truly
but it would make sense seeing as the Ultimate AI is to watch over the internet...as policing is to watch.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:21 pm
by Procyon
Wonderful trivia for a linguophile. <3

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:21 pm
by TheSorrow
haseoxth wrote:
TheSorrow wrote:
haseoxth wrote:i noticed that TheSorrow didnt use the poilce thing....maybe Aina must "police"the place where her kind live...as in watch over it...think about it.
I didnt use the slang because of it being a...well...slang. Usually slangs are just misformations of language and mean nothing truly
but it would make sense seeing as the Ultimate AI is to watch over the internet...as policing is to watch.
Indeed it would, like Rick added it
watching eye that always lives in the land of its kind
Basicly mine + watching

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 5:29 pm
by Shirosaki
So after all this means that she is probably the watcher of her own land, "The world"... if so she will be the Ultimate A.I., definately

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:50 pm
by awkward_confusion
'Aina, a word in the Arabic language meaning where?
'aina, a word in the Hawaiian language meaning land, or soil (Earth).
Aina, a word in the Swahili language meaning kind, sort, class, or type.
Aina, a word in the Finnish language meaning always.
'aina is swedish slang for the police.
Aina, a word in the Assyrian language meaning eye.
Aina means "life" in the Malagasy language ( spoken in Madagascar )
Aina is also a street a quarter mile away from my house.

Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:56 pm
by haseoxth
awkward_confusion wrote:
'Aina, a word in the Arabic language meaning where?
'aina, a word in the Hawaiian language meaning land, or soil (Earth).
Aina, a word in the Swahili language meaning kind, sort, class, or type.
Aina, a word in the Finnish language meaning always.
'aina is swedish slang for the police.
Aina, a word in the Assyrian language meaning eye.
Aina means "life" in the Malagasy language ( spoken in Madagascar )
Aina is also a street a quarter mile away from my house.
dude...thats awesome...and i hope our little sentense makes since....

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:30 am
by Eden Prosper
TheSorrow wrote: If you take all the meaning and rearrange it, it sounds like if Aina means "Eye that always lives in the land of its kind"
You gotta get some sort of award for that :/


I had never really wanted Eina to be the future Ultimate AI for 'The World'. -_-;; But seeing the several definitions of 'Eina' AT provided it's fully possible CC corp (The real one) could like.... know those and picked that name for her purposely. (Somewhat like Aura's name. Usually Meaning Peaceful, Light, presence or Protector in most languages hence why that name was given to her.... and it's just a cool name.)

Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 12:38 pm
by AuraTwilight
I think I remember hearing in some interview or something that Aura's name was chosen both because it meant "Light" and that her name is made up of Au and Ra, the atomic symbols for Gold and Radium, two precious metals.