Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:02:41 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Pronunciation of "daemon" Message-ID: <19990211100241.007585@relay.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <19990210234522.C791@localhost>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999, Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 12:45:57PM -0800, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> Just how exactly do you pronounce "daemon?" Is it day-mon or
>> dee-mon? (Or something else entirely?)
>
> Dee-mon
The word originally comes from the Greek word that is transliterated
as "daemon" but pronounced die-moan.
They were spirts (they might be good and kindly, or perhaps nasty and
bad) which typically watched over a small area (maybe a spring, or a
particular field near the woods), and one would appease them by making
offerings in a traditional spot.
This is thought by many to be one of the origins of early
pan-European "pantheism" (or the belief in many deities), although
daemons were merely spirts and not true deities.
And that's probably more than you wanted to know. Myself, I always
keep a rubber chicken handy to sacrifice on the Altar of the Console. ;-)
--
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