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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wally: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by ausar: [b] No,Egyptians had many names for nomadic desert people everything from Bedu to Shansu to Namu. Aamu was a generic term that reffered to most foregin Asiatic people. This also included sedentary populations. ''Coastal Libyans......Lebu'' Lebu could mean either Tehennu or Tamhou. Another term was Meshwesh that also included both Tehennu and Tamhou. ''Arabia....................Aribi; Deshret'' Arab is not an ancient Kemetic word. It's a term that means to wander or move around reffering to nomadic bedouin tribes across the so-called Middle East. Desert means red land reffering to the non-fertile red part of the country of Egypt. '' ''Ethiopia.................Ethaush; Ethosh (frontier;boundary;border)'' No equivalent Coptic word for this ezist. Show me a Sahidic or Boharic Coptic term for the so-called word you are using. Ethiopia comes from the Greek term burnt face people or Aethiopies. [/b][/QUOTE] Jeez, a guy does his homework and then is asked for his notes. Oh well... The references are all, except where noted, from EWB's dictionary. I use Budge's spelling and my comments are in brackets ( ): [b]Libya/Libyans [/b] 842a - Tehnu: Libyans 859a - Thehnu: Libyans 855a - Themehu: Libyans (an ethnic term meaning "red ones" ; see for example, 837a Temeh for "a kind of ochre" which is red or yellow; I have also pointed out that it also refers to "hematite" which also connotes red) 1010a - Rebu/Lebu: Libyans (Diop compares this to the Lebou, a Wolof ethnic group who live along the coast of Senegal and who are fishermen; from this I extrapolated that 'Lebu' referred to people living along the coast as contrasted with the next term below :) 1060a - Thehenu: a Sudani country; part of Libya 1057b - Tehnu: Libya [b]Arabia [/b] 948a - Arbin, Aribi: Arabia 1062b - Teshert: the Eastern Desert and Arabia (see 889b, the adjective Tsr is used to form such words as 'terrible', 'horrible', 'blood', 'gore', 'devil', and 'the wicked gods who were associated with Set.' [b]Asia/Asiatics [/b] 1037a - Seth-t :(2) Asia 111a - Aam: an Asiatic, a nomad of the Eastern Desert 111a - Aamu: Shepherd, nomad, etc. 111b - Aamit: an Asiatic woman [b]India [/b] 1012b - Hentui (Hendui): India; Copt. Hentou [b]Greece/Greeks [/b] 156a - Uinn: Greece, Greek; Copt. ouoein/ouoini = light/window 463b - Hanebu: a very ancient name of the inhabitants of the Mediterranean, later the Ionians (ie, Greeks); Copt. Oueinin [b]Ethiopia [/b] I have saved the best for last. I stumbled upon this information while looking for something else. It was the first concrete evidence of which I had long believed that the word 'Ethiopia' did not originate with the Greeks, but in Africa itself. The following excert is from the "Dictionary of the Bible"; pp741-42; Little, Brown, and Company, 1863 (which proves my point that you can find real jewels of information in the old texts.) It is found under the definition of Ham: "Kem (Egypt), which we believe to be the Egyptian equivalent of Ham, and which, as an adjective signifies 'black,' probably implying warmth as well as blackness. If the Hebrew and Egyptian words be the same, Ham must mean the swarthy or sun-burnt, like [b]Aithiops which has been derived from the Coptic name of Ethiopia, ETHWSH, [/b] but which we should be inclined to trace to THOSH, 'a boundary,' unless the Sahidic ETCHWSH may be derived from Keesh (Cush)." 819b - taush-t:borders, boundaries 820b - tash:boundary, frontier; Copt. tosh 852a - thash: boundary, frontier (ie, Kush becomes Ekush and Thosh becomes Ethosh) (although it hardly changes the fundamental analysis of the author, he was probably unaware of :) 531a,b - Kham:burning hot; heat; fire; fever; Copt. Khem; Khmom (also compare; khem in Wolof: 'burnt to black') [This message has been edited by Wally (edited 21 June 2004).] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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