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Nomos is an ancient Greek word, meaning, law and which in further details could mean law and cultural traditions. Like Pashtuns, the ancient Greeks, always attached a lot of importance to Nomos. Nomos, which is now pronounced more as Namos in Pashto, is an important phrase in the language. Like the ancient Greeks who paid more importance to their Nomos rather than their leaders, Pashtuns traditionally have obeyed the code of Pakhunwali, their law, more than their leaders.



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Námo Mandos is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Mandos is the usual name for the Vala originally called Námo (Judge).



Mandos is described as being stern and dispassionate and never forgetting a thing. He was the Vala who cursed the Noldor leaving Aman, and counselled against allowing them to return (almost to the point of vindictiveness). But unlike Morgoth, his Dooms are not cruel or vindictive by his own design.



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Indo-European: *teuk- Meaning: beat



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Proto-Indo-European: *temǝ- Meaning: dark, Proto-Indo-European: *tem- Meaning: sacred place



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the Indo-European root *tem, meaning "to cut" (ibid. tem), is the root of Latin templum, "temple," a place "cut out" for augury. But perhaps, by metaphorical extension, the notion of a temple came in time to also include the idea of writing, since the cutting of words was done in association with the temple.



Augury : 1. The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

2. An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.

3. A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.



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