Japanese Romanji

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:25 am Post subject: Japanese Romanji

Hey Guys,

Hopeing to find someone with a little more knowladge of japanese here:)

With this page I can translate Romanji to Japanese characters:
http://spencer.blackmarket.net/japanese_helper.asp

So I translated Trueno and I got えの which in babelfish translates to "obtaining"
I also translated Levin and I got ん which in babelfish trnaslates to "it is"

I always thought it ment lightning and thunder? Smile

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:41 am Post subject:

wel maybe someone put up some bullshit somewhere... anyways...it is and obtaining dont sound very likely either

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:49 am Post subject:

I had a Toyota Corolla AE86 It Is ????

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 1:09 pm Post subject:

OK, done some more searching. Trueno is actually spanish and means thunder in spanish.

No clue *yet* about Levin though:)

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject:

Levin: Lightening
Treuno: Thunder

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:22 pm Post subject:

Eircam,

Does it? Thats the question we are trying to answer. I always thought that was indeed so, Levin=lightning, Trueno is Thunder. But if you translate them on the web Levin = it is, Trueno = obtaining (japanese romanji). So either the translation doesn't work or we are all wrong.

Looking further I found out Trueno is Thunder in spanish, but Levin doesn't mean anything in spanish.

Translating from English to Japanese I get:
Lightning = 電光 = denkou
Thunder = 雷 = kaminari

So it seems Levin isn't lightning, and Trueno isn't completely thunder... Atleast not in Japanese.. That is, if I can believe altavista and my kanji to romanji converter, but I am not sure how trustworthy they are...

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

levin

SYLLABICATION: lev·in
PRONUNCIATION: lvn
NOUN: Archaic Lightning.
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English levene, levin. See leuk- in Appendix I.

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject:

Banpei just send me this:

http://www.answers.com/topic/levin

It sais Levin is lightning in old english.

Interestingly trueno just gives alot of info about our cars:

http://www.answers.com/topic/trueno

So bottom line
Trueno is Thunder in Spanish
Levin is Lightning in old English

And for some reason some japanese figured they make nice names for cars... go figure:)

N.B. I wouldn't be surprised if Trueno is also old English for thunder, our English friends should be able to help us out on that one.