At 3:06 am -0400 13/6/99, 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.
Don't know him.
>Does it have the correct vocative ending?
If it's a 'foreign' proper name, I guess so. The vocative of ihsou^s is
ihsou^.
>(I can't account for the
>initial kh instead of just k, though.)
Well, 'kth-' is not good Greek, whether ancient or modern. In Classical,
Hellenic & Katherevousa you must have either 'khth' (i.e. both aspirated)
or 'kt' (both unaspirated). Both combinations have given way to /xt/ in
modern demotic. So I guess whoever hellenized the name wanted the initial
consonants to conform to non-demotic Greek.
> I appreciate your efforts.
You're welcome.
Ray.