Since the Greek word for devil is diabolos, I assume that our English word
is derived from the Greek. Both Satan and diabolos mean something like
accuser or slanderer.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Stuart d Kirkley wrote:
> Recently, it occurred to me that the word 'devil' is probably a
> contraction of 'do evil' = d'evil =devil. I wonder if anyone has any
> further hard information that might support this.
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