More Urbanomancy

[Stacy Stroud]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: James Palmer <jrp36 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>To: UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu <UA at purpletape.cs.uchicago.edu>
>Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 11:10 AM
>Subject: More Urbanomancy
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>>[BTW, if anybody can tell me the Gk for city, I'd be very happy]
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>Polis (as in metropolis, Indianapolis, necropolis) or delphi (Philadelphia)


Delphi was *a* Greek city, yes, but doesn't "adelphos" mean "brother"?  I
though the "-adelph-" part of "Philadelphia" was the "brotherly" in "City
of Brotherly Love," not the "city."

Are there other Greek-derived words which use "delphi" as a particle
meaning "city"?

Stacy Stroud
sstroud at uky.campuscwix.net