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Thanks to David Seed's article, "Pynchon's Herero," in ''Pynchon Notes'' #10
[Published since 1980, [http://www.ham.muohio.edu/~krafftjm/pynchon.html Pynchon Notes]] is quarterly journal which is a fount of Pynchon scholarship. Back issues are available.]

100, 322, 323:<br />
'''Ndjambi Karunga:''' Herero God (invoked only in thanksgiving after some unexpected luck; or they [the Herero] pray to him when all other means of help fail)

100, 316:<br />
'''omuhona:''' "lord, master"

152:<br />
'''mba rara m'eroto ondyoze ... mbe mu munine m'oruroto ayo u n'omuinyo:''' "he was shining in my dream as if he were alive"

314-16, 320, 362-63, 673, 730, 732:<br />
'''Nguarorerue:''' "one who has been tested"

316:<br />
'''Otyikondo:''' "bastard" or "mulatto"

316:<br />
'''eanda:''' "origin" (organized according to maternal rights)<br />
'''oruzo:''' "derivation" (organized according to paternal rights)

316:<br />
'''Omakungurua (Otukungurua):''' "the emptied vessels"

321:<br />
'''Omumborombanga:''' "Tree" (According to Herero myth, man originated out of the omumborombanga tree, which is accordingly venerated for symbolizing the tribe's sacred descent)

322, 524:<br />
'''Mukuru:''' "the old one" (signifying the primal ancestor of the Herero, the first man to emerge from the tree of creation)

325:<br />
'''outase:''' "large, newly laid cow turd"

328:<br />
'''okanumaihi:''' "the little drinker of sweet milk"

362:<br />
'''mba-kayere:''' "I am passed over"

456:<br />
'''m'okamanga:''' "instantly" or "instantaneously" (Probably in the sense of this radio transmission would be "come in.")

520:<br />
'''orururumo''' ([oru = inanimate prefix] + "a flame") orunene (oru + "great" or "big"): "the high, rising, dead, the blazing, the great one"

521:<br />
'''omunene:''' omu = animate + nene ("big") = "the eldest brother"

673:<br />
'''iya 'kurandye:''' "we are going, my fellow"

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