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Erika is a firstname that exists in several languages from all around the world and all these do not come from the latin "erica": the German/Dutch version is a two-words from "ehre" meaning honnor/worth (Indo European root 'her-' linked to "be risen above") and "riga" meaning queen. In Japanese, the syllab "ka" is linked to the red color of fire but so far, I've not been able to have a proper translation of the entire name. It also exist in some African languages.
Ptah (pth) means "to create", as Osiris (wsr), from ousire, means "strong,powerful,wealthy".
Ramses does not translate into "son of Ra", since it then would be 'Saenra': it simply is "born of Ra"; Tutankhamon means "living image of Amon".
Menes comes, most likely, out of 'men', "firm, established, enduring". (A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Faulkner. Usable even by non-egyptologists. Well, that is to say if you can read hieroglyphics)
Amon does mean "the hidden": he was originally the sun traveling underground during the 12 hours of the night (Khepri at dwan or dusk point, Horus when rising or setting, Ra in its full).
Ra means either "sun", "mouth" or "word", and probably all of these at the same time. The Judeo Christian concept of creator verb comes from Egypt.
If Anubis (Inepu) is close to inepu "royal hair" it is also close to inep "decay". Since he's a death god favored by the embalmers, it is most likely the second. Thutmose is no name of any god but well the one of four pharaoh's
Caesar, according to my Latin teacher, was named like this because he has been the first cas where both child and mother survived a caesarien, meaning "a cut".
Juno is most likely a contracted form of juveno "young".
But names as Mars (formerly an agriculture god), Jupiter and Juno did come from an Etruscan background - I would check it. If I remember correctly, Ove did come from the name of an Etruscan god.
Saturn is linked to the root 'satur/er-', "to saw".
Vulcan is indeed linked to fulgere or simply to fulgur "lightning".
I'll check in my Akkadian-Sumerian notes, but I suspect that Cybele is a title originally given to Ishtar, since 'baalat' means "lady" or "queen". It must be somewhere in my attick.
Ptah (pth) means "to create", as Osiris (wsr), from ousire, means "strong,powerful,wealthy".
Ramses does not translate into "son of Ra", since it then would be 'Saenra': it simply is "born of Ra"; Tutankhamon means "living image of Amon".
Menes comes, most likely, out of 'men', "firm, established, enduring". (A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Faulkner. Usable even by non-egyptologists. Well, that is to say if you can read hieroglyphics)
Amon does mean "the hidden": he was originally the sun traveling underground during the 12 hours of the night (Khepri at dwan or dusk point, Horus when rising or setting, Ra in its full).
Ra means either "sun", "mouth" or "word", and probably all of these at the same time. The Judeo Christian concept of creator verb comes from Egypt.
If Anubis (Inepu) is close to inepu "royal hair" it is also close to inep "decay". Since he's a death god favored by the embalmers, it is most likely the second. Thutmose is no name of any god but well the one of four pharaoh's
Caesar, according to my Latin teacher, was named like this because he has been the first cas where both child and mother survived a caesarien, meaning "a cut".
Juno is most likely a contracted form of juveno "young".
But names as Mars (formerly an agriculture god), Jupiter and Juno did come from an Etruscan background - I would check it. If I remember correctly, Ove did come from the name of an Etruscan god.
Saturn is linked to the root 'satur/er-', "to saw".
Vulcan is indeed linked to fulgere or simply to fulgur "lightning".
I'll check in my Akkadian-Sumerian notes, but I suspect that Cybele is a title originally given to Ishtar, since 'baalat' means "lady" or "queen". It must be somewhere in my attick.
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