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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Joao S. Lopes" <josimo70@...> wrote:
> A link with Mosech/Mosoch/Mesech, Noah's grandson?
>
> Joao SL
>
Hi Joao,
Never thought of Moses. I was first trying to find out which
reference was older for this name, or did the two appear independently
from each other? Could this have been a mistake reading maps (the two
areas are placed symmetrically around the sea and the direction of map
drawings was not a convention in the past)? The literature and
dictionaries are extremely contradictory on the subject: you get
anything from gr. mysia, misia, to moisia (that only for the European
region). The European region is said to have been mentioned by Homer.
I have no idea about Semitic languages and I have no idea if
Moses>mysia is possible to think phonetically. There is a Greek word
with a similar stem that does not sound convincing:
"to mysos": abscheuliche, verbrecherische Handlung
I am not sure this helps any further, but someone could have ideas -
maybe.
Can anyone throw light on the way Hebrew names were
translated/transcribed into Greek?
Evelina