Vol-de-mort (was SV: Re: pronunciations

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 6963

New reply at bottom. 

---  "Sara Ludwig" <sara.ludwig at t... wrote:
 I understand it as a mixture of languages such as 
********** vol=full de=of mort=death.  ************
 I wonder if this was intended by the author?

---Rita Winston catlady at wicca.net wrote:
 In what language is "vol" = "full"? 

---  "Sara Ludwig" <sara.ludwig at t... wrote: 
 It's Dutch.

--- Dinah  <mzettl at f...> wrote:
 voll = full (German)

---Rita Winston catlady at wicca.net wrote:
 In French, vol = flight or vol =  theft
 This gives us the possibilities:
 1)Flight from Death (he is striving for immortality)
 2)Flight of Death (and where he lands, he kills someone)
 3)Theft from Death (he is stealing immortality/life from death)
 4)Theft of Death (by killing all those people, he is stealing 
Death's privilege of ending their lives at the appointed time)

Does everyone know the word 'overdetermined'? Regardless of what it 
sounds like it might mean, it means an effect that has more than one 
cause. Maybe the name Voldemort is overdetermined, by having more 
than one meaning. Maybe the French and German meanings of Vol were 
*both intended by JKR.