origins of avada kedavra

[Haggridd]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "aliceinchains520" 
<blackcat93 at s...> wrote:
> This is my first post, so forgive me if I've committed a heinous 
> error.
> 
> Avada kedavra is from the Aramaic meaning "may the thing be 
> destoyed." I found this interesting.  This information is from an 
> article on Judaic Mythology.  The whole article is at: 
> www.pantheon.org/areas/mythology/asia/judaic/articles.html
> 
> Go check it out! It's really cool.
> 
> -AIC520

Alice, you have not committed any error at all.  Although this has 
been pointed out over the years since GoF was published, it is lovely 
to hear that you are making the same voyage of discoverythat many of 
us have made, to see the wealth of allusion that JKR has put into her 
books.  And I don't believe I have seen that link before.

So, please share your observations without reservation.  And, some 
time from now, you may be reading a post by another newbie who will 
have discovered for herself what you have already found, an etymology 
for Avada Kedavra-- or of Viktor Krum's surname (bandylegged), or of 
Dumbledore's (bumblebee), or of Crookshanks's (also bandylegged), or 
why Sybill Trelawney is named Sybill, or ...........

-Haggridd (who isn't sure whether he prefers JKR's puns on names or 
her allusions)