Re: Mitzrayim (was: New To List)

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:43:15 +1300 Wesley Parish
<wes.parish@...> writes:
> On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:21 pm, you wrote:
> > I guess you're using |z| for /ts/ ?
> 'fraid so.  Though I often write |Ashkenatsim| or |Ashkenatzim|.
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So you use |z| for /ts/ and |ts/tz| for /z/?
I'm confused...

> That would make /m-/ a nominal prefix in Hebrew.  I've only learnt
> that that
> far in Arabic, and haven't got anywhere near that in Aramaic/Syriac.
>  Does it give that meaning in Ancient Egyptian?
> Wesley Parish
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Well, the Ancient Egyptians didn't call themselves "Mitzrayim" so i don't
think it matters... Although i remember seeing something once about their
native name, /x-m-/ as John mentioned, meaning something like 'black' and
referring to the soil along the Nile or something like that.


-Stephen (Steg)
"Send [that god] to me that he might be my husband,
  That he might lodge with me...
  If [you don't] send t[hat] god,
  According [to the ordinances of Irkall]a and the great underworld,
  I shall send up the dead that they might devour the living,
  I shall make the dead more numerous than the living."
     ~ ereshkigal, sumero-akkadian goddess of the netherworld,
       'myth of nergal and ereshkigal'