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Egypt (Score:2)

by ziggy (25)

I don't know when or where the name "Egypt" came to pass (Rome? Latinized Greek?), but "Judea and Samaria" (Yehuda v'Shomron) is typical for Israeli naming. Egypt is still called [Eretz] Mitzrayim -- the land of bondage, as if Moses airlifted the entire nation across the Sea of Reeds just last week. The rest of the middle east, FWIR, is as the English named it.[*]
How did it get this way? Go ask Ehud Ben-Yehuda, the inventor of modern Hebrew. Where ever a biblical term was applicable, it was maintaine
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  by TorgoX (1933) <sburkeNO@SPAMcpan.org> on 2002.02.04 14:56 (#4074) Homepage Journal
  
  BTW, Partridge's Origins says English "Egypt" < Latin "Aegyptus" < Greek "Aigyptos", which is apparently from Babylonian "H.ikupta", which is the Babylonian name for the city of Memphis. The Ancient Egyptian name for Memphis was "Atur", so it's not clear how/if you get "H.ikupta" form "Atur".
  
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    by ziggy (25)
    
    it's not clear how/if you get "H.ikupta" form "Atur".
    Rot-11? Rot-12? :-)

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