James Bejon

If any kind Egyptologists/Copticologists (?) would be willing to take a look at a section on Egyptian names I’ve recently put together for a book, then please let me know.

Very nice indeed!
Some vague suggestions on this page:
Maybe צֶלְצְלִים or something like that?
Either way, an extra shva is needed in צִלצִילִים.
And אֵין rather than אֶין.
Perhaps ‘timbrels of’ would be תֻּפֵּי.
And אֶעֱזָב for אֶעֶזָב?

Not quite top of the world’s problems at the moment, but why do some text file handlers have the option ‘Merge delimiters?’, and why would it be set to TRUE by default? When would this ever be desirable behaviour?

Interesting—thanks!

Something like *ʔarbaʕatum > *ʔerbeʔtum > ʔerbettum?

Keen to know if folk out there are aware of cases of C₁vʔC₂ ⇒ C₁vC₂C₂?

Is this a common/known development?

Too much.

Separate thought: I get the impression that in Akkadian aḫ normally means an actual brother—‘God has given the brother’, ‘He has replaced the brother’, etc. I wonder if that’s right, and if so, how the difference came about.

It wasn’t. They seem too well attested throughout West Semitic (since early times) to have an Egyptian origin. But I could easily imagine that many of the Israelite ones were re-analysed Egyptian names, particularly in cases where their semantics seem awkward.

If any kind Egyptologists/Copticologists (?) would be willing to take a look at a section on Egyptian names I’ve recently put together for a book, then please let me know.

Looking at a bit of Ugaritic, it has just occurred to me that BHL = ‘to disinherit’ fits the use of בה׳׳ל in Psalm 2 pretty well.

Neat.

No that’s perfect—Egyptian *[ū] ⇒ *[ī]/*[ē] is a regular sound change, thought to have taken place some time between the 13th and 8th century BC.

Ah I see. I think that all our Ugaritic literature is thought to have been written in a pretty narrow window and is thus treated as one big blob as far as time-depth goes.

Maybe I’ve misunderstood you. I’d take him to take it for granted that ảxy is older since the word goes back to Proto-Semitic *[ʔaḫ].

Looking at a bit of Ugaritic, it has just occurred to me that BHL = ‘to disinherit’ fits the use of בה׳׳ל in Psalm 2 pretty well.

Re ‘brother‘:

Yes. Very Najdi-like.

Huehnergard 2008 on Ugaritic Vocabulary p. 272 has good stuff on this.

Do we? Nice!

ꜣḫ-mw.t | Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom An online database of ancient Egyptian personal names, titles, and persons from the Middle Kingdom.

I suspect the אח here is Egyptian ꜣḫ = ‘beneficial/glorious/etc.’

Compare אֲחִימוֹת with ꜣḫ-mw.t:

pnm.uni-mainz.de/name/7329

Lots of good info on this in ‘The Scribal Culture of Ugarit’ by Robert Hawley, Dennis Pardee, and Carole Roche-Hawley.

Right!

I have, however, corresponded with Hekhmat Dirbas a bit, and have enjoyed the fact he’s written about lion names.

No—a friend of a friend.

Currently working on a book about name semantics.

It strikes me as a missed opportunity that, when Joshua started doing his PhD with John Huehnergard, I didn’t make any comments about the Fox being in the Henhouse.

Neat—thank you!

Interesting—thanks!

Interesting—please do.

So you’re saying it’s not effectively any different from אַ֫רְצָה ,נֶ֫גְבָּה, etc.

1/2. Observation.

The vocalisation of אֹהֶל = ‘tent’ is odd given the Ugaritic a͗hl = ‘tent’ and the Classical Arabic ahl = ‘household’.

And, as a friend pointed out to me the other day, the MT allows the accent of הָאֹ֖הֱלָה (‘tentwards’) to fall on an antepenult, which is also odd (unprecedented?).

No, I was joking, but am tempted to do it now.

Sorry about that—hope I didn’t come across as overly familiar.

Hypothesis. While *ʔahl became *ʔāl and then *ʔōl (via the Canaanite Shift), ‘tent’ and ‘tentwards’ were still written אהל and אהלא. The orthographies of these words were then read back into their pronunciations, but the stress of אהלא remained initial, hence אֹהֶל and הָאֹ֖הֱלָה?