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23:31 Sep 22, 2011 |
English to Spanish translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Esoteric practices | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Charles Davis Spain Local time: 21:17 | ||||||
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4 +3 | conjuro (cantado) |
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conjuro (cantado) Explanation: Es una variante de "galdr"; estrictamente, es alemán antiguo: "Galdr (plural galdrar) is one Old Norse word for "spell, incantation", and which was usually performed in combination with certain rites. It was mastered by both women and men and they chanted it in falsetto (gala) [...] The Old Norse word galdr is derived from a word for singing incantations, gala (Old High German and Old English: galan) with an Indo-European -tro suffix. In Old High German the -stro suffix produced galster instead. The Old English forms were gealdor, galdor, ȝaldre "spell, enchantment, witchcraft", and the verb galan meant "sing, chant". It is contained in nightingale (from næcti-galæ), related to giellan, the verb ancestral to Modern English yell; cf. also the Icelandic verb að gala "to sing, call out, yell". In Dutch language gillen. The German forms were Old High German galstar and MHG galster "song, enchantment" (Konrad von Ammenhausen Schachzabelbuch 167b), surviving in (obsolete or dialectal) Modern German Galsterei (witchcraft) and Galsterweib (witch)." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galdr |
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