An etymology for Kreacher

kizor0 ryokas at hotmail.com
Thu Jul 22 13:45:52 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 107262

Adi: the (excellently translated) Finnish version gives the
house-elf's name as "Oljo". While this hasn't sounded like anything
(other than an unpleasantly squishy word) to me before, come to think
of it, one of the Finnish words for "creature" are the more formal
"olento" and the simpler "olio" (for all you linguistic nuts, from
"olla", to be). "Oljo" and "olio" are pronounced almost exactly the
same; the only difference is between the i and the j.

This, I think, lends credecens... creden... believeability to your point.

- Kizor






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