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On 28 May 2008, at 08:31 , Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
On 2008-05-27 Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:dSr.t "red land" = desertHm. looks like _desert_ be ultimately derived from Egyptian, which of course it is not. Would be fun to create a con-setting where it is, though!
Yeah, I know the similarity there is only coincidental. But I wanted my "non-Egyptians" to have some "desert nomad" vibe about them as well, so the "red land/desert" connection was convenient. :)
I'm very inexpert on Real World Egyptian (and Coptic), though I suspect the ".t" in transcribed dSr.t wouldn't have been pronounced by the time the Romans showed up in Egypt ... maybe lost before Ptolemy's time, too. I've no idea, really! I think the vowel for the Coptic descendant of dSr "red" had some kind of /o/. Not sure what the proper AE antecedent would have been, I guessed at /a/ for my conlang, which might be vaguely accurate, though again I'm not sure when the change might have happened.
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/