Re: CHAT: New to list
| From: | Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 17:13 |
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Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> 2003.01.22. 15:59:35 +1h-kor írta:
> En réponse ŕ Mau Rauszer <maurauser@...>:
>
> > He probably means Ancient Egyptian under Kemetic.
>
> Ah! Nice then. I didn't know Ancient Egyptian was called Kemetic. Is it
> based
> on an Egyptian root or on the name of the language in another language,
> Greek
> for instance?
>
kmt was the root for "Egypt". I just started learning Middle Egyptian
While Aigyptos lat. Aegyptus was the distorted Greek form of hwt-kA-ptH, the
meaning "House of the Ka of Ptah".
-- Mau, láwe ta-mau Peiryo