Greetings

To build on what Dr. Philips is saying, Daman-Hor means "the city of Hor", and
Hor is the real name of the Egyptian Falcon god, without the Greek suffix "-us".
The name is Hor, not Horus.

It is not an unfamiliar thing in Afro-Asiatic languages to find the same word in
two languages, but with a different ordering of the three original sounds in the
word (حنش H-N-Sh, or snake in Arabic, is the equivalent of נחש نحش, or
N-H-Sh in Hebrew. The same thing applies in our case of Daman-Hor, where Daman
is the ancient Egyptian equivalent of Madan مدن (the root for City, Madina,
if you omit the long vowels).

Hor, on the other hand, is even easier to relate to Arabic. We all know the god
Hor is a falcon. One of the names of Falcon in Arabic is الحر, the free one,
Hor. Therefore, if you want to pronounce the name the way ancient Egyptians did,
use دَمَنْ حُرْ, or D-M-N H-O-R.

This can be related to a previous thread on Semitic and Hemetic languages. These
two classification, which have biblical backgrounds, originated in the 19th
century, a time when much of the science was biased towards the facts of White
Man at the time. Semitic and Hemetic have racist overtones, and this is why a
more natural name, Afro-Asiatic languages, is now commonly used. It relies in
the naming on the geographical area of this "one" family of languages, and has
no religious/mythical backgrounds.

Just like Arabic, Hebrew and Aramaic, and unlike Indo-European languages
(English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latin,Persian, Sanskrit...),
Ancient Egyptian has singular and plural case, but also "pair" مثنى. Ancient
Egyptian has a symbol for feminine names, one to parallel تاء التأنيث
in Arabic, and is based on roots, like all Afro-Asiatic languages.

If you ever plan to learn Ancient Egyptian or Nabatean Aramaic, to be able to
read all the inscriptions in Sinai and all over Egypt, try to learn it from
Arabic. You are already at an advantage.

Shine!
Amr Gharbeia

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