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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread O Oddity #123771 02/23/2004 11:42 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... Why pharaoh and not pharoah? "Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Middle English pharao, from Old English, from Late Latin pharaon-, pharao, from Greek pharaO, "[MW] Are there any other O words spelled with 'aoh'? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Are there any other O words spelled with 'aoh'? #123772 02/24/2004 3:27 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass Not at this time. :) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: O Oddity #123773 02/24/2004 5:09 AM Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City inselpeter Pooh-Bah inselpeter Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2001 Posts: 2,379 New York City >>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'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: O Oddity #123774 02/24/2004 5:32 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California jheem veteran jheem veteran Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Since Egyptian pr‘ meant 'palace' originally lit. 'great house', it's unlikely that it meant 'the sun'. Pharaoh in Hebrew is par‘oh. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: O Oddity #123775 02/24/2004 6:49 AM Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 Jenet journeyman Jenet journeyman Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 81 It's written with two phonetic signs, one for pr and the other for '3, which mean simply house and great. You can't get the sun/god name r' out of it, because those two consonants belong to different halves of the compound. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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