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in reply to a message by Winfred G. Elizalde
Interesting! What's the origin of the name? Greek? Because the name "Nile" wasn't used by Hebrews or by Egyptians. Both called it Ieor.
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Eventhough, my source says it is a greek word, Nilus is Latin for "river"
I have this parragraph :
"Neilos per i greci, Nilus per i latini, anche il Nilo trova finalmente una sua spiegazione nel babilonese più antico che per dire e scrivere inondazione
usava nilum. "
My Italian is not that good but I get from
his, that for the Greek it was Neilos, for the Latin Nilus and in old Babylon the word Nilum was used to describe a flood.
I have this parragraph :
"Neilos per i greci, Nilus per i latini, anche il Nilo trova finalmente una sua spiegazione nel babilonese più antico che per dire e scrivere inondazione
usava nilum. "
My Italian is not that good but I get from
his, that for the Greek it was Neilos, for the Latin Nilus and in old Babylon the word Nilum was used to describe a flood.
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Wow, strange that they gave it a Babylonian name and not an Egyptian one! lol
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Nilus doesn't mean 'river' in general, though - it's just the name of that specific river, or more likely the god of that specific river. And where his name came from is not clear to me ... the Egyptians had other explanations for the Nile and its flooding ... the Romans were the great specialists at river gods. But in Latin a river was: flumen.
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According to my analysis of my cooperative linguistics: old Babylonian,old Hebrew & old Egyptian were either dialects or by and large regionally closely related languages, 'no way they can't share words and names. Arabic was formed from these languages.
Fastforward, the name "Nile" was a frequent word used by the so called nilotic people, they were named by the Greek as such. In my language "northern Sesotho, south Africa, when it has rained, for example, I will say "pula e nele", in all regional languages we used similar word but slightly different. Zulus will say "imvula ya neta", Venda tribe will say "mvura ya nesa" , they sound similar to me because I speak the language as my mother tongue, I will tell if any word on earth took from my language or we took from their language.
Fastforward, the name "Nile" is nilotic named as such by the Greeks, the nilotic were praising rain frequently using the word that "pula" has rained, at the banks of the river and the Greeks labelled them as such and the river as such. "My contribution"
Fastforward, the name "Nile" was a frequent word used by the so called nilotic people, they were named by the Greek as such. In my language "northern Sesotho, south Africa, when it has rained, for example, I will say "pula e nele", in all regional languages we used similar word but slightly different. Zulus will say "imvula ya neta", Venda tribe will say "mvura ya nesa" , they sound similar to me because I speak the language as my mother tongue, I will tell if any word on earth took from my language or we took from their language.
Fastforward, the name "Nile" is nilotic named as such by the Greeks, the nilotic were praising rain frequently using the word that "pula" has rained, at the banks of the river and the Greeks labelled them as such and the river as such. "My contribution"
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