YHWH/Allah (Was: Re: Non-constructed religions)

Nik Taylor wrote:
> Could it have been an archaic form, then?  I'd read that Yahweh was some
> sort of causative form.  I know that Yahweh is pretty definite as the
> proper pronunciation.
Reckon I don't know nothin' 'bout them fancy causative forms, but... :D

I don't think that pronunciation is that "definite;" we have no way of
knowing accurately what the vowels were.

My source tells me Allah is probably from *al-Ilah (al- being the Arabic
definite article), _ilah_ being probably borrowed from Hebrew _eloah_
(singular of _Elohim_, God), thus "the God."