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Elisha is a Hebrew male name meaning “my God is salvation” and is the name of a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, and the Quran. Although it’s more commonly used as a male given name, it has had use as a female given name, surging in popularity in the 1980s. I don’t know whether the name was inspired by the Biblical figure or whether it was used as a variant spelling of Alicia or a combination of both, although in Hebrew Elisha is pronounced e-LIE-sha (similar to Elijah).

Origin: Hebrew

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Variants:

• Elysha (English)
• Elishua (Biblical Hebrew)
• Eliseus (Biblical Latin, Latin)
• Eliseo (Italian, Spanish)
• Elisie (Macedonian)
• Elissaios (Ancient Greek)
• Alyasa (Arabic)
• Elyesa (Turkish)

Indio seems to be either a male form of India, the name of a country in South Asia; the name comes from Sanskrit Sindhu meaning “river, stream; flood, waters; sea, ocean”. I’ve also seen it listed as a variant form of Indigo, the color of a purplish-blue color. The word comes from Ancient Greek indikon meaning “of India” or “Indian dye” in reference to the dye extracted from plants and exported from India to the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Indio is also a Spanish, Galician, and Portuguese word meaning “Indian”.

Origin: Sanskrit

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Variants:

• Índio (Portuguese)
• India (English)

In the first of these two articles about the life and work of the German Post-Impressionist painter Lesser Ury (1861–1931), I looked at his paintings up to 1903.

Lesser Ury (1861–1931), Berlin Street Scene with Horse-Drawn Cabs (1900-10), oil on canvas, 50.8 x 35.6 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.

Painted sometime during the first decade of the twentieth century, Ury’s Berlin Street Scene with Horse-Drawn Cabs closes in on his formula for success. Although he retains considerable detail in the trees and horse-drawn cabs, the wet road now looks like a real water surface, with its reflections perfect. The dull daylight makes it hard to simplify the image any further, though.

Lesser Ury (1861–1931), Evening at a Lake with a Pine Forest (Grunewaldsee?) (1909), oil on canvas, 75.5 x 106.5 cm, location not known. Wikimedia Commons.

His other landscapes of this period were also becoming more distinctive and memorable.

Die neunte Fahrt des Dampfschiffes „Fürth“ vom 5. April 1911 bis 24. September 1911 ist jetzt online. Es ist die einzige Fahrt der „Fürth“ auf der Skandinavien-Linie der Deutsch-Australischen Dampfschiffs-Gesellschaft.

In Schweden wurden Gothenburg (Göteburg) und in Norwegen Frederikstad angelaufen und dort große Mengen Holz geladen. Aber auch reichlich Sprengstoffe waren mit an Bord. In Australien gab es ebenfalls zwei neue Destinationen: Geelong in Victoria und Port Pirie in Südaustralien.

Leider taucht die „Fürth“ im Hafen von Geelong auch in der Kategorie „Schiffs-Unfälle“ auf.

Zum Abschluss werden wir noch erfahren, was es mit „Macassar Boengie“ auf sich hat.

Alle Details jetzt auf folgender Seite: In Skandinavien

My final selection of paintings by Pierre Bonnard looks at one of his most interesting pictorial devices: the landscape view through French or other windows.

Bonnard developed a taste for views from high points in his cityscapes of Paris during the last years of the nineteenth century. Many of his paintings from that time adopt a high viewpoint from the second or third floor, and look down on bustling people, carriages, and pets in the street. But as far as I can see, he didn’t include the frame of the window in those views.

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Street Scene (The Auteuil Viaduct) (c 1910), oil on canvas, 61.5 x 46.3 cm, Private collection. The Athenaeum.

The first sign of him framing a view in this way is in an unusual painting of this Street Scene (The Auteuil Viaduct) made in this town to the west of Paris in about 1910…

Tycho is the Latinized form of Danish Tyge, itself the Danish form of Tóki which comes from Old Norse element Þórr meaning “thunder” which comes from Proto-Germanic *Þunraz (thunder) which derives from a PIE root word. I’ve also seen it listed as possibly being a Latinized form of Greek Tychon meaning “to hit a target; hitting the mark” deriving from PIE root word *dʰewgʰ- (to produce; to be strong, have force). In Greek mythology, Tychon is the name of a daemon of fertility; there’s also another Tychon who is the daemon of chance or accident, who is similar to Tyche, a Greek goddess of fortune,  chance, providence, and fate (even their names come from the same root word).

Origin: Proto-Indo-European

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Variants:

• Tyge (Danish)
• Thyge (Danish)
• Tyko (Finnish)
• Tóki (Ancient Scandinavian)
• Tychon (Ancient Greek)