Egypt · مصر

6 n yismawen yettwajerden · 5 connections · Yettwaɣer s Ismail (1989)

Isem deg wakud

each step is a dated name on record

Kemetegy2050 send Ɛisa – deffir Ɛisa 400

Miṣriakk1360 send Ɛisa – 1332 send Ɛisa

abeddel n ṣṣut

Aigyptosgrc700 send Ɛisa

asuqqel

Aegyptuslatin30 send Ɛisa

abeddel n ṣṣut

Kēmecopdeffir Ɛisa 200 – 1300

areṭṭal

مصرarabedeffir Ɛisa 641

Connections and origins

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DḤwt-kꜣ-Ptḥ → AigyptosProposed

A temple name of Memphis taken into Greek as the name of the land. A theory, not proven.

abeddel n ṣṣut · 700 send Ɛisa · Add the formula

CAigyptos → AegyptusVerified

Greek into Latin.

asuqqel · 30 send Ɛisa · Add the formula

CKemet → KēmeVerified

The same word, km.t, in Coptic, the last stage of Egyptian.

abeddel n ṣṣut · deffir Ɛisa 200 · Add the formula

DMiṣri → مصرProposed

Akkadian Miṣri to Arabic Miṣr, perhaps through Aramaic. The path is not shown by any one text.

areṭṭal · deffir Ɛisa 641 · Add the formula

CAegyptus → EgyptVerified

Latin into the European languages.

asuqqel · 1500 · Add the formula

How a change is graded

Same soundsall the way, every step dated: highest
Near sounds(q → c, ḥ → h): each lowers it
Opposite sounds, deletions, favourites, a language in betweenlower it more: they make chance matches easy
A dated spellingfor both forms raises it

Grades come from rules, never votes. Members check each step's dates and sources.

Methods

Ismail (1989)s lexṣasImesli imeɣlalen i d-yettawin aẓar; iɣunsiyen ur ttwasnamenyen ara. Yal abeddel ilaq ad yettwafsar s ulugen, s tazwilt-is deg udlis. Yal imesli uḍsis neɣ imgarad, tukksa, imesli ismenyaf neɣ tutlayt n tlemmast yessadday tafesna.
Tira yettwaselkanYal tikli ilaq ad tili d tira yettwafen deg uɣbalu s uzemz. Tafesna tekka-d seg inagan n sin yimeẓla: taɣawsa (tadrimt, tira ɣef weẓru) d B, arratu s uzemz d C, ayen nniḍen d D.
Ismawen n LeqranlaterAd d-yas. Tira n Leqran d tayatin-is ad uɣalent d asekyed ur nettbeddil ara i wamek yettwabeddel yisem n Leqran.

Each method has its own rules and gives its own grade. A step can pass under one and fail under another; both are shown.

Ismail (1989) · See all 39 rules

T. A. (Tahia Abdel Aziz) Ismail, Classic Arabic as the Ancestor of Indo-European Languages and Origin of Speech, Cairo 1989

same soundSame sound in both forms (the normal case)8.2, 8.15
near soundReplaced by a near sound (affinitive)8.1
opposite soundReplaced by its opposite sound (contrastive)8.1, 8.14
near soundOne sound goes one way in one language and another way in another8.4
language betweenExplained through a language in between8.16
favourite soundA favourite sound of the language replaces another9.1–9.2
echoOne sound copies another in the same word10.1
deletedA sound the language lost is deleted4.5
deletedDeleted to make the word more compact16.1
deletedThe whole syllable holding ʿayn is deleted8.23
movedA sound moved to a new place in the word (metathesis)16.1, 14.13
movedMoved to form a cluster the language allows14.2
deletedThe vowel stop (hamza) is deleted5.14
near soundThe vowel stop (hamza) becomes a consonant stop5.15
near soundHamza with s becomes x (rex ← raʾs)5.15
near soundq becomes c or k8.3, 8.7
opposite soundq becomes h8.3, 8.6
near soundq becomes g8.7
near soundḥ becomes h8.13
opposite soundḥ and w replace each other8.14
near soundkh becomes h, c, d or f8.13, 15.13
near soundʿayn becomes a vowel8.19
opposite soundʿayn becomes b, mostly where the word has r8.22
opposite soundʿayn becomes a stop (d, g, t, c)8.21
near soundghayn becomes a vowel, g or w8.24
near soundA back sound merges with its front pair (ṭ/t, ḍ/d, ṣ/s, ẓ/ð, q/k, ḥ/h)4.7, 20.26
near soundLetters of one written shape stand in for each other (b/t/th, j/ḥ/kh, d/dh, r/z, s/sh)4.3
favourite soundb becomes p (the Latin favourite)9.9
near soundb and m, both made with the lips15.15
near soundw becomes v in Latin9.12
opposite soundy becomes g5.24
near soundy becomes l5.25
near soundm becomes l9.3
near soundn becomes r where the word has another nasal12.5
near soundr and l replace each other9.13
movedThe final n (tanwīn) moves inside the word12.5
movedThe feminine t moves to the front or middle12.1
near soundA doubled consonant becomes a plain stop12.4
same soundThe article al- is kept, fused into the name11.18

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