Re: intrinsically dead character of Livagian
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 7, 2000, 17:11 |
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At 12:09 07.4.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
>BP Jonsson wrote:
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> > (_orkn_ = "killer whale", no less!)
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>Latin "orca", Old English "orc" > Tolkien English. "Orca" now has
>some popularity in Modern English as the name of the animal, because
>of the bad connotations of "killer".
I know. When writing in Icelandic I use _Orkningur_, which is a
warrior-name, for "orc" in the Tolkien sense.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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