New conlang - Ichwara Prana (going slightly off-topic)
From: | Geoff Horswood <geoffhorswood@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, November 24, 2004, 20:12 |
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:08:53 +0200, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
wrote:
>"Hashem" isn't a name on it's own - it's a euphemism for the
>Tetragrammaton (Y..H).
Is there a lang (nat or con) that has a word like "euphemism" (which BTW
IIRC technically means an oblique reference to something nasty) but meaning
an oblique reference to something good or sacred, such as "Hashem" for the
Tetragrammaton...?
G
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