Re: [tied] Re: Athene

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From: Håkan Lindgren

To: Cybalist

Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 7:37 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Athene

 

Here is a delicious repast for conoisseurs of Egyptian loans:

 

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/4482/AEloans.html

 

(regularly revised, and an exemplary lesson in etymology).

 

The only thing I can add to what you'll find there concerns the word Egypt itself. Linear B a3-ku-pi-ti-jo = aiguptios 'Egyptian' (cf. the proper name Aiguptios in Homer) MAY be a direct loanword from Egyptian, but may also have been mediated by Ugaritic, in which Hikupta was the name for both Egypt and Memphis. There is also a probable Ugaritic source (msry, cf. Arabic Misri) for the other Mycenaean term meaning 'Egyptian', mi-sa-ra-jo.

 

Piotr

 

Håkan writes:

This kind of research has already been undertaken: there are several well known, uncontroversial Egyptian/Semitic loan words in Greek.  Here are some.

Bernal claims that he has discovered hundreds of new ones, which is false. That's why he's being attacked

khiton, "tunic" Hebr. k@..., Phoen. ktn

arrabon, "deposit" Hebr. erabon

khrusos, "gold" Hebr. harus, Ugaritic hrs

kados "wine jar" Hebr. kad

kupros, "henna" Hebr. koper

papuros, "papyros" Egypt. p3-pr (p3 is the Egyptian definite article)

baris, "boat" Egypt. br

ebenos, "ebony" Egypt. hbn(y)

erpis, "type of wine" Egypt. irp