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If you go through the archived link on Wikipedia where they cited that information, it says that it means "explorer" or "wanderer" in Egyptian... which isn't a language. Arabic is the language spoken in Egypt.
Hopefully someone with more Arabic knowledge will reply, but closest I can get is التائه "drifter, wanderer", which is transcribed as altayih which is kind of similar? I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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Hopefully someone with more Arabic knowledge will reply, but closest I can get is التائه "drifter, wanderer", which is transcribed as altayih which is kind of similar? I'd take it with a grain of salt.
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Egyptian certainly is a language... it's just a dead one. The source may actually have meant Ancient Egyptian or even Coptic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language
Also, just because a language is dead, doesn't mean that people can't make (or derive) names from surviving vocabulary of the language in question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language
Also, just because a language is dead, doesn't mean that people can't make (or derive) names from surviving vocabulary of the language in question.
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