Editing Enochian (section)

== Vocabulary and corpus ==
Laycock notes that there are about 250 different words in the [[Text corpus|corpus]] of Enochian texts, more than half of which [[Hapax legomenon|occur only once]]. A few resemble words in the Bible – mostly proper names – in both sound and meaning. For example, ''luciftias'' "brightness" resembles [[Lucifer]] "the light-bearer"; ''[[Babalon#Enochian magic|babalond]]'' "wicked, harlot" resembles [[Whore of Babylon|Babylon]].{{sfnp|Laycock|2001|p=42}} Leitch notes a number of root words in Enochian. He lists ''Doh'', ''I'', ''Ia'', ''Iad'',{{clarify|date=January 2022}} among others, as likely root words.{{sfnp|Leitch|2010b|pp=14–15}}{{fix|text=what do they mean?}} While the ''Angelic Keys'' contain most of the known vocabulary of Enochian, dozens of further words are found throughout Dee's journals.

Thousands of additional, undefined words are contained in the ''Liber Loagaeth''. Laycock notes that the material in ''Liber Loagaeth'' appears to be different from the language of the 'Calls' found in the ''Angelic Keys'', which appear to have been generated from the tables and squares of the ''Loagaeth''.{{sfnp|Laycock|2001|p=43}} According to Laycock:

{{Blockquote|The texts in the ''Loagaeth'' show patterning "characteristically found in certain types of meaningless language (such as [[glossolalia]]), which is often produced under conditions similar to [[trance]]. In other words, Kelley may have been 'speaking in tongues'. [...] there is no evidence that these early invocations are any form of 'language' [...] at all.{{sfnp|Laycock|2001|pp=33–34}}}}

=== Dictionaries ===
There have been several compilations of Enochian words made to form Enochian dictionaries. A scholarly study is [[Donald Laycock]]'s ''The Complete Enochian Dictionary''.{{sfnp|Laycock|2001}} Also useful is Vinci's ''Gmicalzoma: An Enochian Dictionary''.{{sfnp|Vinci|1992}}