Talk:Kagnew Battalion

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Stub	This article has been rated as Stub-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article is not currently associated with a task force. To tag it for one or more task forces, please add the task force codes from the template instructions to the template call.

	This article is part of WikiProject Ethiopia, an attempt to co-ordinate articles related to Ethiopia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Stub	This article has been rated as stub-Class on the Project's quality scale.

[edit] Meaning of Kagnew

Actually Kagnew (ቃኘው) literally means "Straighten it up!", that is, "Bring it to order!" rather than "Conqueror"... Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 02:15, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You're right on the ball tonight. I must be misreading the source, or the source is confused (he also implies in an unclear way that all the Kagnew members were "6 feet tall", without being clear whether that's rumor or actual policy). Cheers, DBaba (talk) 02:24, 31 March 2008 (UTC)