Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On 3/21/07, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
>     It is noteworthy that the biblical term for Egypt retains the dual:
>     Mis(.)rayim, reflecting a time when Egypt was known as a country
>    combining  two parts, upper and lower.
>
>     Also interesting is that the Arabic term for the country, identical to
>    the biblical, occurs in the the singular: Mis(.)r, or Mas(.)r.

The following discussion in ANE-2 touches on the question of dual forms
in city names and toponyms:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ANE-2/msearch?query=%22dual+forms%22

Yitzhak Sapir