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Miṣr (modern) · Égypte · MASR · tamurt tatrart seg 1922
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Leqran
ayen i sen-qqaren i yiman-nsenayen uran wiyiḍur yettwabgen ara d tamurt-a
Yal isem, s uɣbalu-s
Amek qqnen yismawen
Ḥwt-kꜣ-Ptḥ → Aigyptos · A temple name of Memphis taken into Greek as the name of the land. A theory, not proven.Yeldi
Aigyptos → Aegyptus · Greek into Latin.Yettwasenqed
Kemet → Kēme · The same word, km.t, in Coptic, the last stage of Egyptian.Yettwasenqed
Miṣri → مصر · Akkadian Miṣri to Arabic Miṣr, perhaps through Aramaic. The path is not shown by any one text.Yeldi
Aegyptus → Egypt · Latin into the European languages.Yettwasenqed
Miṣra n Leqran = tamurt-a?YeldiAyen ur nemsasa ara ar tura
We have no Egyptian-language text on record that calls the land Miṣr.Their own names were Kemet, then Kēme in Coptic. When did the people themselves start saying Miṣr?Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →Pharaoh’s own scribes wrote Miṣri in Akkadian.Was it a foreign word they adopted for diplomacy, or a name for only part of the land?Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →The Koran’s Miṣr has other candidates.Mesra (Algeria) is proposed too. Neither is proven.Ddem yiwet · bdu amennuḍ →Yettwasumer i
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