Re: deception in perception

From: george murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Thu Jul 25 2002 - 11:54:49 EDT

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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.

English "devil" (cf. German der Teufel) comes through Latin diabolus,
"slanderer", from Greek diaballein, "to calumniate" - originally "to throw
across" (dia + ballien).

Shalom,
George

George L. Murphy
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