Re: African Names

From: dgkilday57
Message: 65220
Date: 2009-10-13

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> Wow, it's the Monica jackpot. I notice in many cases it seems to be a family name, as well as the forms Argamonica and Mamonica. In one case it seems to be a cognomen. For the heck of it, I looked for *Monicus but the closest thing I found in North Africa was Mamonicus
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That one might be Punic, if the Phoenicians had the same equivalent of Pluto/Dis as the Syrians did, <Mammo:n> in the NT, if memory serves.

DGK