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'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' ๐ฃ๐Š๐ข๐„๐—๐Œ
'''[[Deseret Alphabet]]:''' ๐ฃ๐Š๐ข๐„๐—๐Œ (mสŒloสŠkaษช)


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[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite PN]]
[[Category:Names]][[Category:Lehite PN]]

Revision as of 13:49, 10 June 2013

Lehite PN 1. Missionary to LAMANITES from ZARAHEMLA, ca. 90 BC (Alma 20:2; 21:Preface, 11)

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Etymology

Ariel Crowley appears to have been the first scholar to suggest that MULOKI is related to MULEK and that both derive from the Hebrew word mlk, โ€œto rule, kingโ€ (โ€œThe Escape of Mulek,โ€ Improvement Era, May 1955, p. 326, fn. 4). If all the vowels matched, it would be tempting to see this name as a gentilic of MULEK, but they do not. Promising is the biblical PN mlwky in the Ketiv, but the Qoreh is mlykw (Nehemiah 12:14).

Another biblical PN, Malluch, is similar to MULOKI. Perhaps it is best to assume the u to be a *shwa and the i as a hypocoristic ending, so that the name would originally have meant something like โ€œrule of DNโ€ or โ€œcounsel of DNโ€ or even โ€œDN rulesโ€ (JH).

Cf. Book of Mormon MULEK, AMULEK, MELEK, AMALEKI, AMALICKIAH, AMLICI.

Variants

Deseret Alphabet: ๐ฃ๐Š๐ข๐„๐—๐Œ (mสŒloสŠkaษช)

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