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| Literal meaning of Sangheili | |
| Posted By: UrsusArctos <zloty5@netscape.net> | Date: 10/24/06 8:37 a.m. |
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I think I've got the etymology for the name 'Sangheili' 'Sang' is the French word for 'Blood', something I got out of the Da Vinci Code and confirmed on teh internetz. ( Tartarus' hammer is the "Fist of Rukt", 'Rukt' being the Hindi word/Sanskrit uninflected word-stem for blood. The Covenant are pretty bloodthirsty, for sure.) 'Heili' is a hard one. It might be a shortened form of 'Heiligen', the German word for 'Holy'. More likely is what I found in the Icelandic wikipedia article on 'Heili'. 'Heili' means 'brain'. http://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heili Sangheili=Sang(French)+Heili(Icelandic)= "Blood Brain" 'Blood brain' is a very fitting name for the exceptionally violent and militaristic Elite race, don't you think? | |
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| Replies: |
| Literal meaning of Sangheili | UrsusArctos | 10/24/06 8:37 a.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | The More Deluded | 10/24/06 10:55 a.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | vlad3163 | 10/24/06 11:02 a.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | vlad3163 | 10/24/06 2:10 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | The More Deluded | 10/24/06 2:36 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | vlad3163 | 10/24/06 2:11 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | Green tea | 10/24/06 2:54 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | The More Deluded | 10/24/06 2:59 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | DangerousHippo | 10/24/06 7:25 p.m. |
| Re: Literal meaning of Sangheili | Dragonclaws | 10/24/06 4:54 p.m. |
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