Re: [tied] Crete - The Land of Pillars

Nirmal:

>>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").

But what I want to know is what [xpS-kf] means.


= gLeN