Re: CHAT: New to list
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 22, 2003, 18:57 |
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Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
> 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?
The Egyptian name for Egypt was [x0m0], where [0] represents an unknown
vowel, traditionally represented as "e" internally and omitted finally.
"Chemistry" was originally "Egyptian knowledge".
--
John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan
Promises become binding when there is a meeting of the minds and consideration
is exchanged. So it was at King's Bench in common law England; so it was
under the common law in the American colonies; so it was through more than
two centuries of jurisprudence in this country; and so it is today.
--_Specht v. Netscape_
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