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The kittens in our first litter all have names beginning with an 'A', the kittens in the second litter with 'B' and so on. This is a system used also by several other catteries. Our first litter consists of four cats: Annamalai, Andhra, Alleppey, and Amritsar Our second litter consists of six cats: Bombay, Baniyan, Bharat Purr, Buddha, Birla Mandir, and Baroda Our third litter consists of four cats: Connaught Place, Chai and Chapati, Coimbatore, and Cochin. Our fourth litter consists of four cats: Darjeeling, Dhaula Kuan, Delhi Dhobi, and Dharmsala. Our fifth litter consists of six cats: Eravikulam, Ellora, Ettumanor, Eastern Ghats, Egret, and Erumeen. Our sixth litter consists of two cats: Fatehpur Sikri and Fakir Ganj. Our seventh litter consists of five cats: Gujarat, Gingal, Ganesh, Garam Masala, and Goddess Ganga. (Some of these pages are not finished yet.) Our eighth litter consists of four cats: Harappa, Hawa Hawa, Hanuman, and Happy Holi (Some of these pages are not finished yet.) | ||
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A special benefit when raising a litter of kittens is the fun of creating nice names for the kittens. On this part we have aggregated the explanations of their names. Since both of us has made several journeys in India and are very fond of the country, we have decided to choose names from Indian geography, religion, culture and nature. Our cattery name "S*Poo Nai's" means "cat" in Tamil (except the S* which denotes that the cattery name is registered at Sverak, a Swedish cat organisation.) Tamil is a language spoken mainly in Tamil Nadu in Southern India but also in parts of Sri Lanka. It is an old dravidian language, related to Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu in India, and Singhalese in Sri Lanka, but also with languages in the east. The languages spoken in Northern India, e.g. Hindi, Bengali, and Kashmiri belong to the Indo-European group of languages and are since more closely related to English than to Tamil.
Indian words usually have its origin in one of the hundreds of languages spoken in India except English. There are a number of different alphabets used all quite different from the Latin alphabet we use. There does not seem to be any definite ruling how to transcript these alphabets to the Latin. This results in a number of different spellings in English. Also such a common word like chapati could be spelled chapatti or chapathi as well. This might make life complicated, but at the same time we have the possibility to choose the spelling we like... If you are interested in the font 'Prakrta' in the header you can get more information here. Here is a page with beautiful tourist pictures from India. |
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S*Poo Nai's Norwegian Forest Cats Updated March 1, 2002 visitors since June 18, 2001. Text: Suzanne Wejland (suzanne.wejland@telia.com) |
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