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From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
Subject: Re: Hebrew AMEN and Egytian AMUN - common root?
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Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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Date: Sat, 13 May 1995 17:31:07 GMT
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In article <sarimaD8E9ow.MI8@netcom.com> sarima@netcom.com (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>[...] any AMEN/AMUN connection is more likely to be at the level
>of inherited cognates.

I think any connexion between the Egyptian <imn> `hide, conceal' and
the Hebrew <'mn> `true' is more likely to be at the level of fiction.
If the words were semantically close, it would be a different story.

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

Does anyone still take those classifications seriously?

-- 
`"Haud oan there a meenit," says the king tae Joseph, "I've been thinkin."'
Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk)    (J Stuart, _Auld Testament Tales_)
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