On Thu, 06 May 2004 12:25:11 -0700 (PDT), ND
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nmd65@...> wrote:
>Aside from the presumed meanings of Caphtor, the
>Egyptian "Keftiu" (the land and the people) comes from
>"keft," which means "behind," or "at the back of."
Not in Hannig's Egyptian dictionary.
You probably mean <k-f-3> "backside, bottom (of vase),
base", which probably has nothing to do with Kftjw.
The only relevant words in Hannig's dictionary are:
k-f-tj, "aragonite"
k-f-tjw, k-f-tj-w, "Crete"
k-f-tj-w (pl.), "seaships" ("Seeschiffe, Kretafahrer").
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