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On Dec 3, 2005, at 7:43 PM, habarakhe4 wrote:
I know Jor-el would mean 'Fear +god' in Hebrew; what wold Kal-el mean? Zor-el? (For the record, I always assumed that the parentless Superman was an assimilated Jew).
Jor would only mean that if you're reading it as coming from the root /j r ?/. Kal could be /q l l/ "lightweight" or "easy", or /k w l/ "measure" or /k l l/ "all, contain". Zor could be from /z r/ "stranger, different".
-Stephen (Steg)