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From: glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen)
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Subject: Re: Necronomicon as a Magical Device (was Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon)
Date: 6 Jun 2000 13:07:49 GMT
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In article <393CBB7A.B3BA4FF2@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>,
Jan Grimmer  <grimmer@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>ny'rl'thot'p wrote:
>
>> "Fra Sigma Gamma" <gregw@thot.net>:
>> >Necronomicon means Book (volume, instruction) of the Dead.
>>
>> book=con?; volume/instruction=nom?; dead=necro!
>>
>> I don't follow your logic. 'nom' typically refers to names.
>
>Yes, so it's 'book of dead names' or 'book of the named dead'. See message by
>Fra Sigma Gamma (6/6/2000, 0:08)

"Nomen" is Latin for "names", "nomic" is Greek for "customs or laws".
Since "Necro" is distinctly Greek, I'm pretty sure we shouldn't expect
Latin to be mixed up in the title.

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