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#93169
01/23/2003 11:18 PM
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stranger
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AWAD for Thu 2003-01-23 00:21 says "pharaoh" comes from [ancient] Egyptian "pr"="house" + "o"="great". However, according to Egyptian Grammar by Gardiner, this is way off the beam. "pr" means "great" and "h'h" (that's a glottal stop in the middle) means "house". Hieroglyphics doesn't represent vowels. The glottal stop is customarily represented by "a". I'm sorry I can't post the beautiful hieroglyphs for those words here. The Egyptian "pr" is the same word as the "bar" in "bar mitzvah".
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#93170
01/24/2003 1:08 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
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Dear RinDavis: thanks for your contribution. I hope Wordsmith provides more topics about
Egypt so you can further enlighten us.
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#93171
01/29/2003 5:41 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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The bar in bar mitzvah means son. AHD4 traces it back to the common Semitic root *bn, also meaning son. Are they wrong? Seems like quite a jump from an Afro-Asiatic great to a Semitic son.
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#93172
01/29/2003 10:21 PM
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I checked. You are right. I am the one who was off the beam.
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