Horcrux etymology / RAB etymology / the letter H
Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)
catlady at wicca.net
Sat Aug 6 20:47:29 UTC 2005
As some posters pointed out, 'hors' means 'outside' like hors de
combat and hors d'oeuvres. I kind of thought that Horcrux was made up
to mean 'outside the crucible' meaning 'out of the trouble of life'.
Meaning it is a way to put part of your soul out of the danger of
life.
Just to be contrary, I invented a theory that RAB was Ronald Arthur
Bilius Weasley, who has not been mentioned in canon yet, but named his
three sons Ronald, Arthur, and Bilius. JKR's website said Arthur
Weasley (the one in canon) was one of three brothers, and PoA tells us
that our Ronald Weasley had an Uncle Bilius.
Juli wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/28554 :
<< neither in Spanish (the H sound is more like a J) >>
In Mexican Spanish, there are lots of J's and most of them are
pronounced like H. (Some of them were X in transliterations of Nahuatl
which was pronounced like the un-English gutteral represented by CH.)
Some seem to be silent (e.g. Joaquin). I think Mt. San Jacinto is
pronounced Yacinto but I don't know if that's Spanish.
There was no letter J in Latin. No letter U either. Jupiter was
spelled IVPITER.
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