Anonymous ID: 9c00bf June 18, 2020, 6:32 a.m. No.9657994   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8043

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What is a Spell?

 

Spell-early 14c., "read letter by letter, write or say the letters of"- Convey ideas and narratives through symbolic written imagery (letters)

Spellian - The native word in Old English "to tell, speak, discourse, talk,"

-from Proto-Germanic spellam (source also of Old High German spellon "to tell," Old Norse spjalla, Gothic spillon "to talk, tell"), from PIE spel- (2) "to say aloud, recite."

-meaning "set of words with supposed magical or occult powers, incantation, charm" first recorded 1570s.

In English we use the German word Spiel, as in to sell a lengthy story. A spielmann was a story man, or traveling minstrel who performed epic narratives. Spiel in modern German means 'game', spielen 'to play'.