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    Zanarkand Abes, Besaid Aurochs? funny names, but what do they refer to? does it matter - no, it doesn't have to, but why not something else? Abes reminds me of apes and babes and Abraham Lincoln.


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    I never really thought about it.
    But now that you bring it up, there names are kind of weird.
    But isn't Abes a group from a particular part of Zanarkand?
    If so, than it can kind of be viewed as a gang type name.
    (I'm not saying they are a gang, I'm just saying that's kind of what it is like.)
    As for Aurochs..no idea.

    No real reason for the names I guess, just names for teams.
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    i'm not sure exactly what an Auroch is, but from what i've seen its an animal that kind of resembles an ox or a bison in some way.

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    "Abe" or "Auroch" could refer to anything. If you don't know what a Fourty-niner is you could guess all day and not figure it out unless you know the history of that area.

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    An aurochs (this word is both singular and plural) is a European bison/ox type animal, and I believe it is recently extinct, I'm not sure. I have no idea what an abe might be.

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    I wanna now what the hell a Goer is???????
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    1. Abe (100%)
    Jewish (two syllables): Yiddish name, from Aramaic abba father, which was used as a personal name in Talmudic times instead of ABRAHAM .
    (From A Dictionary of First Names in Names & Places)


    2. ABE (100%)
    Chem. acetone-butanol-ethanol (solvent)
    (From The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations in English Language Reference)

    3. Page Abe (47%)
    Literally, ‘father sun’. Creator deity of the Tukano Indians, who live in the upper reaches of the Amazon, along the Colombian-Brazilian border. In the beginning, say the Tukano, there were the sun, Page Abe, and the moon, called Nyami Abe or ...
    (From A Dictionary of World Mythology in Mythology & Folklore)

    4. Abraham (47%)
    Biblical: name of the first of the Jewish patriarchs, who entered into a covenant with God that his descendants should possess the land of Canaan. The Hebrew form is Avraham , of uncertain derivation. In Genesis 17: 5 it is explained as ‘father of a ...
    (From A Dictionary of First Names in Names & Places)


    5. Abe, Komei (37%)

    Japanese composer and conductor. Prof. of comp., Kyoto Univ. of Arts 1969 – 74 . Works incl.: Theme and Variations , orch. ( 1936 ); vc. conc. ( 1942 ); pf. conc. ( 1945 ); sym. No.1 ( 1957 ), No.2 ( 1960 ); Serenade ( 1963 ); Sinfonietta ( 1965 ); ...
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    I doubt it's any of those things.

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    I think its the yiddish name for father.......jecht?
    since then....those 1000 words have never been spoken.......


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    i was thinking Abes may be used as an analogy for Ace, but Zanarkand Aces don't sound too good, so...

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    In the opening to FFX, the Abes are playing a game of Blitzball against a suave, stylish team in sleek red-and-silver uniforms. Their name? The Duggles.
    How fitting.

    Let's look at all the team names...

    Abes
    Duggles
    Aurochs
    Goers
    Psyches
    Beasts
    Fangs
    Glories

    Some of those are 'real' names, others aren't. We can only assume that these names mean something in the FFX world.

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    Duggles must stand for... DIGGLETS, but they were to embarrassed to admit to being both pro blitzers and Pokemon fans...
    That and Abes are the only two ones that are not understandable.

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    It was a tribute to this guy.


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    Hi, I'm a newbie, so u can all yell at me for disturbin the peace but still, i have sumfink that might help in this queery. I found on a site, that when the game was translated to english, not all of the names of things were kept the same. The Zanarkand "Abes" is one of them, the direct translation from Japanise is Zanarkand "Apes" just as wen they made the Engilsh version they changed "Aaron" to "Auron" and all that. So in a nut shell, theymight have just made it "Abes" cause it sounded kooler? I dunno. If ne1 has info to prove me rong, go ahead, but thats what i read

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    Hahaha... Tidus is an Ape? That would explain many things

    That's really interesting, Tai-Ti. Thanks for pointing it out, and welcome to the forums!

    I had no idea that Auron was originally Aaron. I guess it's just one of those things they needed to change in order to maintain his "cool factor" - like Cloud in FFVII, who's called "Claude" in the Japanese script.

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    to true. The "cool factor" is always an issue

    there's no I in team, but there is in pie, as in meat pie, and meat is an anogram of team

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