From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 52937
Date: 2008-02-13
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From: "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:53 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: [Courrier indésirable]
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> There are Semites of many kinds besides Arabs.
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> Also, so far from home in Egypt or Palestine, the Arabs might have
> described
> themselves as 'from the East'.
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> Patrick
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> Arabs came out of their nowhereness
> at a time when Egyptian was a dying language.
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> How can they possibly take their name
> from that ?
> They already had it.
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> Arnaud
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Probably, Arnaud, because Egyptian Arabic are both descendants of Afrasian.
I suggest an acceptable scenario is that ¿-r-b which the Egyptians used for
the 'East' but the Semites expanded to 'Easterners'.
That 'nothingness' is also reached from a cardinal direction.
Patrick