Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Lester, G Brooke" <brooke.lester AT PTSEM.EDU>]

 Hello,
the two candidates that I know of would be
1) rmT (T=underline t) /remetch/: men, humans, occ. 'Egyptians.'
2) rxyt (x=hooked h) /rexeet/: common folk, subjects, humankind.

The second may have more political connotations, "subjects of king."
Interestingly, since you mention 'aM, the Middle Kingdom Egypian for
"Asiatics" is "'3m" /'am/. I suppose that at some point the Asiatics with
whom Egypt had contact referred to themselves, in a Semitic tongue, as "the
People."

Best wishes,
Brooke

-----Original Message-----
[...] Amongst all of you scholars, is there one who can tell me the ancient
Egyptian word for "people," the translation equivalent of the Hebrew
`aM?