Re: TAN: Greek translation requested
| From: | Jim Henry <jimhenry@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, June 13, 1999, 17:26 |
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On 13 Jun 99, at 3:06, John Cowan wrote:
> Raymond A. Brown scripsit:
>
> > >I know what the third word means. :-)
> >
> > Good - "Liddell & Scott" doesn't give that either - but then they're not
> > good on proper names.
>
> It's plainly "Cthulhu", the alien god/demon devised by H.P. Lovecraft.
> Does it have the correct vocative ending? (I can't account for the
> initial kh instead of just k, though.) I appreciate your efforts.
In one of Lovecraft's letters (I think it's in vol. 1 of the Arkham
House collection) he specifies how to pronounce Cthulu - fricative
/x/, aspirated t (archaic Greek /th/ rather than modern /T/ theta),
stress on the first /u/.
Jim Henry III
Jim.Henry@pobox.com
http://www.pobox.com/~jim.henry/gzb/gzb.htm
*gjax zaxnq-box baxm-box goq.