"transliteration " = a derived form; "occlude" = to hide from sight or knowledge; obscure

[Jonathan Lighter]

 Peter Ackroyd is the author of more than twenty substantive books, which
pretty much shows he's smarter than I am. However:

2002 Peter Ackroyd _Albion_ (rpt. N.Y.: Anchor Books, 2004) 115: Avalon...is
a transliteration of Attalon, apple trees, or Afalxon, apples; the apple
tree was also one of the sacred trees of England.

Same page:  "This is the first surviving reference to the occluded demise of
the ancient king."

OED revisions almost cover this kind of  "occluded," but there's nothing
"fig." about A's use.

JL

"There You Go Again...Using Reason on the Planet of the Duck-Billed
Platypus"

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