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other useswiktionary|warlockmerge|Witch (etymology)#From Old to Modern English|date=October 2011The term warlock in origin means "traitor, oathbreaker". In early modern Scots language|Scots , the word came to be used as the male equivalent of witch (word)|witch (which can be male or female, but is used predominantly for females).McNeill, F. Marian, The Silver Bough: A Four Volume Study of the National and Local Festivals of Scotland , Glasgow: William Maclellan,1957, vol 1; also Chambers, Robert, Domestic Annals of Scotland , Edinburgh: 1861, and Sinclair, George, ''Satan's Invisible World Discovered , Edinburgh, 1871 From this use, the word passed into Romanticism|Romantic literature and ultimately 20th-century Warlock (disambiguation)|popular culture .
The commonly accepted etymology derives wiktionary:warlock|warlock from the Old English wiktionary:wærloga|unicode|w?rloga meaning "oathbreaker" or "deceiver."Old English unicode|w?r-lo?a weak masculine (="traitor, enemy, devil, etc.") = Old Saxon wâr-logo weak masculine (=? "deceiver") (once, Hêliand 3817, in plural wârlogon applied to the Pharisees ). The first element is probably Old English w?r strong feminine (="covenant") = Old High German wâra (="truth"), Old Norse várar strong feminine plural ("solemn promise, vow") (cf. V?ringi = "confederate, Varangian"); cf. Old Slavic. vera ("faith). This is a derivative from the adjective represented by Old English w?r ("true") (once, Genesis 681; ? a. Old Saxon.) = Old Saxon, Old High German wâr ("true"): - Old Teutonic unicode|*w?ro- : - Pre-Teutonic unicode|*waro- = Latin verus . The second element (an agent-n. related to Old English léo?an ("to lie belie, deny") occurs also in the similar comps. unicode|áþ-lo?a , unicode|tréow-lo?a (Old Saxon treulogo ), unicode|wed-lo?a (Middle English wedlowe ), ("an oath-breaker"), etc. - http://dictionary.oed.com Oxford English Dictionary, (online) 2nd Edition (1989) A derivation from the Old Norse varð-lokkur , "caller of spirits," has also been suggested;cite web| url= http://www.ladyoftheearth.com/witch/warlock.txt| title=Warlock| publisher=Ladyoftheearth.com| accessdate=2006-04-30| format=TXT http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A4123946 BBC.co.uk, BBC h2g2 gives further reasons for believing warlock derives from vard-lokkur ("caller of spirits") however, the Oxford English Dictionary considers this etymology inadmissible."ON. varðlokkur wk. fem. pl. ... incantation, suggested already in Johnson, is too rare (? occurring once), with regard to the late appearance of the -k forms, to be considered." — http://dictionary.oed.com Oxford English Dictionary, (online) 2nd Edition (1989)
See also
Magician (paranormal)
Witcher (mythology)
Warlock of Chiloé
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http://www.boudicca.de/warlock-e.htm What is a Warlock?
