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I don't know how much Hebrew Siegel and Shuster knew, but I would find it astonishing if two Jewish kids didn't realize the Biblical feeling of -el/-L terminations. --- In westasianconlangs@yahoogroups.com, Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@j...> wrote: > > 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) >