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From: sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen)
Subject: Re: Hebrew AMEN and Egytian AMUN - common root?
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In article <D88yCq.41n@draco.nova.edu>,
Don Corleone <vacco@alpha.acast.nova.edu> wrote:
>
>It might not be so far-fetched an idea. I heard the the name
>"Moses" was somehow related to the suffix "-mose", as in
>Tut-mose or whatever.
>
This is true, but in this case it is probably a direct borrowing,
while any AMEN/AMUN connection is more likely to be at the level
of inherited cognates.

[Egyptian is closely related to the Semitic languages, and in some
classifications may even be treated as an outlier of the Semitic
group, so hitorical cognates are to be expected].

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