AFAIK the "Warlock" has celtic origins.

In German, we have not that variety words, but the Zauberer and the Magier.

The Zauberer is mire like the Wizard or Mage, but not exactly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

By the way, Tolkien has AFAIK invented the word "Istari" (word for the maiar meant to battle Sauron, like Radagast, for example - whereas Sauron was a maiar, too) in a way so that at a later time the two words Wizard and another word I don't remember now could have deen developed from them in Middlelearth. Another name for Gandalf - so he says - was "Incanus", where an "incantation" is something magical (and also the title of a double-album by Mike Oldfield. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> ).



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