Re: Trans: 'I love you'

--- Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...> wrote:
> Has anyone noticed how many of these translations use some variation
> of
> "mer" or "mir" to mean love?  I have a language in which "meraa" is
> "to
> love," as well.  Did we all get it from Ancient Egyptian?
        I did actually grab it from Egyptian.  I take it "meraa" came
from that source?

        For the curious (according to Lambdin's Sahidic intro) the
Coptic developed to:

me (mei), mere-, merit=.  Adj 'beloved' merit, pl. merate.

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wm

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