Canon Veelas WAS Re: More thoughts on the Elder Wand subplot - Owner?

[zfshiruba]

No: HPFGUIDX 187647

> > kamion:
> > just wondering when the female spirit is called a Veela ( first
> > declension noun in Latin) should the male version of it then be
> > called Veelus or Veelo?


> Geoff:
> My Latin grammar would suggest Veelus (second declension). I'm not
> sure whether any reference to male Veelas is made in canon but on
> odd occasions when I've been idly flicking through fan fiction and
> found obscure AU fiction involving these creatures, they've usually
> been referred to as "male Veelas".



Zf: Actually, it shouldn't be either. Veela is an Anglicized spelling of the original Slavic pronunciations; Wi³a (Polish), Vila (Serbia and Croatia). So technically male Veelas should be the masculine form of one of the original pronunciations: Veely (singular) or Veeli (plural) [Polish]. Unfortunately, English only has gender forms on some of our pronouns; thus we get male Veelas.

Zfshiruba, who apologizes for being a Latin/Linguistics nerd