Ancient Egyptian Forum

Ramses · Prince/Princess Joined: 02 Sep 2003 Posts: 377

Does anyone know where to find a list of ancient Egyptian names? And not just Pharaohs' names......XD
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Neb-Ma'at-Re · Pharaoh Joined: 09 Dec 2003 Posts: 690

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Here are a few sites that should help you out:
Male names
Female names
More Male names
More Female names
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Princess Nefertiri · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 11:07 am Post subject:

I know where to find them.go to google and type ancient egyptian names,then you click 20000-NAMES.COM:Male Egyptian Names
or 20000-NAMES.COM:Female Egyptian Names

Nofertirii · Servant Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 7 Location: Poland

Hmm..... egyptian names...
Nefertari - the englisch version of real egyptian name - Nofertirii
this is one of the real egyptian names.
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shaRa · Tomb Robber Joined: 30 Apr 2008 Posts: 1

Problem of Hieroglyphs is dropping the vowels
therefore those names are not usually pronounced correctly
I think there is a book that list the names of the kings in Coptic, I didn't see it my self thought

I know some names in Coptic that may be interested to you
bAkhom it means "the Eagle"
bishoy "the height"

I can try to find you more if you want

Osiris II · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:35 pm Post subject:

http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Ancient-World/Egypt/Female.shtml

http://www.gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Ancient-World/Egypt/Male.shtml

But remember as has been said, vowels were not produced, so we do not REALLY know how a word (or name) was pronounced.

tnrees · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

I do not see how we can be CERTAIN how the consonants were pronounced. I beleive the classical Greek Beta is now Veta in modern Greek.
Also there would presumably be local accents. What was written down would be the Egyptian of the educated classes.

Osiris II · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject:

As I said above:
But remember as has been said, vowels were not produced, so we do not REALLY know how a word (or name) was pronounced.

tnrees · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 11:36 am Post subject:

Presumably we get the pronunciation of consonants from Coptic & to some extent from names which appear in Egyptian scripts and other known languages. Even though the vowels are not written why can't we get what they were pronounced as from the same source?

Akhnaton · Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:37 pm Post subject:

A google search will yield rich results, as I found out just now!
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