Origins of Avada Kedavra WAS:Re: My thoughts on some things.......

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 148377

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lolita_ns" <lolita_ns at ...> wrote:
 
> On the other hand, I find it interesting that this is the only spell 
> in HP (as far as I remember) that isn't based either on sth that 
> resembles English or on broken Latin. It is in Aramaic, which 
> belonged (since it's a dead language now) to the Semitic branch of 
> the Hamito-Semitic family of languages, and had no connections at all 
> with any of the IE languages, which developed from Proto Indo-
> European (I took a course in historical linguistics during my 
> studies). 

zgirnius:
There is at least one more language represented. The spell Tonks uses 
to fix Harry's broken nose in HBP has the incantation 'Episkey', which 
I could not associate to either English or Latinish roots. Turns out, 
the Greek 'episkeyazo' means 'to repair', adn is the likely origin of 
this incantation.

I love the HP Lexicon!!