Hieroglyph [water] symbol is pronounced /n/ by Egyptologists from I believe the Hadrian cartouch, but everything I see leads to the conclusion that it was an /m/ and only later became /n/ during the Greco Roman period.
1.Coptic Egyptian word for [water] is 'moou' or 'mo', indicating by the acrophonic principle /m/.
2. In Hamito Semitic languages in general 'water' begins with the letter m and Egyptian is such a language. In Ancient Hebrew it is 'mym', 'ma' in Arabic, (see above for Cotpic).
3. The Early semitic letter for M is derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph for [water], as is the Greek and Roman (mistakenly thought to be strictly from Phoenician).
4. Also I have been able to show that three consecutive identical symbols in Egyptian mask a medial U (vav) or Y (yod), so for instance [water] [water] [water] is MMM which is MYM which is the word for "water". Another provable example is the Isis crown which is [horn] [sun] [horn] which is SSS which is SYS as in Isis.
2006-07-16
12:05:54
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David L
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