Talk:שד גמד

OK, this is bollocks. I’ve seen the word ‘elf’ translated as עֶלֶף (elef), בן-לילית (ben-Lilit, id est ‘a child of Lilith’), or just אֶלְף, but never as ‘shed gamad’. I mean, really, ‘midget demon’? Sorry, no. Just... no. 212.25.124.157 11:24, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

I think the user who created it doesn't speak Hebrew, she just works from lists of words. Mglovesfun (talk) 11:42, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

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An anonymous editor questioned the existence of this on the talkpage, and a simple search doesn't seem to bring up anything, so hereit is.​—msh210℠ (talk) 22:41, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

O.K., that is awesome. I'm going to start referring to elves as "dwarf demons" in English. That is awesome. (And it helps explain the relationship between dwarves and elves dwarf demons in The Lord of the Rings.)

All three b.g.c. hits are translating dictionaries. Two have no preview, but the third one is translating Yiddish עלף (elf) to Hebrew “שד, גמד” (meaning “demon, dwarf”) and to English “elf”. The Hebrew translation seems fairly consistent with the range of German mythological elves (as opposed to modern English fantastic elves).

All told, I wonder if the entry's creator misunderstood something he found in a translating dictionary, or got this "term" from a source that in turn misunderstood said, or what.

—Ruakh_TALK 13:53, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Failed, deleted.​—msh210℠ (talk) 17:46, 11 January 2011 (UTC)