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emi- ruÃƒ¤ËŠvnjargg - been trying to get this Sa'ami instructor at Indiana University (Indianapolis) to "translate it" for me. Along the way of trying to find out what it meant, and how we might spell it if we could find a language where it made sense, I discovered from an Indian friend who'd had to study classical Sanskrit (like we have to study Latin or Classical Greek) that the term had a reflexive in it characteristic of Dravidian languages.

Took an awful lot of reading and research to find that Sumerian probably has Dravidian roots, and the 11 or so Sa'ami languages have Sumerian roots, or are related to Sumerian in some meaningful way.

So, there it is "emi- ruÃƒ¤ËŠvnjargg", which probably means "reindeer crossing", with all the sounds for Amaroosia, Seymour was originally called Mule's Crossing. "Mules" means "reindeer" in several Sa'ami languages.

BTW, Skolt Sa'ami has been a written language for less than 50 years which probably explains why no one ever wrote down Amaroosia.

There's a fancy bridge over I65 at Columbus. It's designed by a Finnish bridge design company in emi- ruÃƒ¤ËŠvnjargg in Finland. There's also this close business contact between Finland and Indianapolis involving DWARVES, both human and animal.

If you got on a plane from Indianapolis to Helsinki (yes, there are regular flights for that, but not to London or Paris), the odds are good that the person in the seat next to you would be an important person in the world of strange looking bridges OR dwarfs.