From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61721
Date: 2008-11-18
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: External links (Was Re: [tied] Re: oldest places- and watername
in Scandinavia)
>
> --- On Tue, 11/18/08, Francesco Brighenti <frabrig@...> wrote:
>
>>. . .
>> So what *does* the term 'Hamitic' imply instead?
>>
> . . .
>> 'Hamitic', has in fact
>> even been proved to be a non-reality.
> . .
>
> I've read in various popular books that Ham and Hamitic are based on
> Egyptian Khem (vel sim) "Black (land)", the autochthonous name of Ancient
> Egypt. Semitic languages, of course, went with Mis.r, --which means what?
>
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According to wikipedia on Egypt,
The consonantal skeleton k_m_t appears as ki:mi in Coptic.
It cannot be the origin of Ham.
A.