Re: CHAT: I'm back!
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, January 18, 2002, 8:28 |
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At 19:22 2002-01-09 -0500, Sally Caves wrote:
>LOL! And so Tolkien doesn't borrow, doesn't MAKE his words from any
>real world sources, my foot! And I imagine that gul is "ghoul." < Arabic
>_ghul_, BTW.
The supposed derivation of Black Speech _guul_ 'magic' would be that it is
a loan from Sindarin _guul_ '(black) magic', which itself is derived from
Common Eldarin *ngoolee 'knowledge, wisdom', also found in Quenya _~noole_
'wisdom'. It is probably the case that this Eldarin root predates the word
_nazguul_, but I would still not rule out an influence from _ghoul_ on the
latter word.
/BP 8^)>
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