Re: Mitzrayim (was: New To List)

John Cowan wrote:
>Wesley Parish scripsit:
>
> > 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?
>
>As I said at the beginning of this thread, the Egyptian word for
>Egypt was /x-m-/, where - refers to the unknown vowel, or "Khem"
>in transliteration.
I've seen the Ancient Egyptian word for "Egypt" given as _kmt_ or "Kemet" in
a variety of sources. I might hazard a guess that the "k" should be having
some diacritic turning its value to /x/, but is there any explanation to the
"-t"?

                                                       Andreas

_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE*
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus