[EVA] The German connection

[Brendan Jamieson]

>>> ->"Evangelion" is a Greek word meaning Gospel. I learned that in 
>>> Theology Class  ^_^

>>Perhaps it began as greek, or merely as one of those quirks in the
Indo-European family of languages, but it is definetly german in origan,


Charles King writes:
>>>>Very definitely Greek
"eu": good
"angelos": news
"euangelos": good news
u->v is a result of the word filtering through Latin
I'm not entirely sure of the difference between the -os and -ion
suffixes, though I think -os is masculine and -ion neuter.<<<<<

-> Woohoo! I knew it was Greek! I looked it up in my school's world 
dictionary today, and it too says that it is a Greek word. 








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