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>>O words spelled with ao<<
From Wordnet, Princeton U. (Sorry, I can't give a url, I got it from Mac Sherlock using the dictionary channel. There is a good deal more, there. If anyone's interested, I can post it or PM it.):
The name is a compound, as some think, of the words Ra, the "sun" or "sun-god," and the article phe, "the," prefixed; hence phera, "the sun," or "the sun-god." But others, perhaps more correctly, think the name derived from Perao, "the great house" = his majesty = in Turkish, "the Sublime Porte."
If it's a compound, the 'a' would have been pronounced. Unfortunately, I don't know how to spell Paraoh in Hebrew (!) but I wouldn't be surprised if there were an alef of an ayin there, which might also have been pronounced as a gutteral 'ah'.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted O Oddity Wordwind 02/23/04 11:42 PM Are there any other O words spelled with 'aoh'? tsuwm 02/24/04 03:27 AM Re: O Oddity inselpeter 02/24/04 05:09 AM Re: O Oddity jheem 02/24/04 05:32 AM Re: O Oddity Jenet 02/24/04 06:49 AM
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