Note: Coptic was the spoken and written language in Egypt. It was in use from the first to about the sixth century A.D.<\/p>\n
Mu meant “mother” in old egyptian (Mu = Mut = Maut, the great earth mother in early egypt).<\/p>\n
Over time it mutated into mou, mau, and finally maau in Coptic (though some dialects still use mou).<\/p>\n
Coptic (Hametic Language Group)<\/p>\n
ma place
\nmaau mother
\nme truth
\nmeeue thought, belief
\nmoou water
\nmouh burn, flash
\nmou death
\nmoue island<\/p>\n
Indeed a link between mu and the nearly universal worship of an “Earth Mother” can easily be traced in various language groups.<\/p>\n
The mu sounds in various cultures (pronounced moo like a cow utterance), these all seem to be diachronically linked to a similar ancient root.<\/p>\n
In late Egyptian (Coptic) moue (means both “island” and also “brightness”), moou (water or flood), mou (death), mouh (several meanings according to context: burning, glowing; fullfillment, completion; appearance), me (means love or truth or justice), ma (place or location), maau (mother) and a several other mou- based words.<\/p>\n
Now then, if the pattern follows normal diachronic mutation (i.e. people are lazy and make words easier over time) then the common root may have been ma, mae or mau.<\/p>\n
This is interesting because the indo-european languages all have “ma”, “me”, or “mo” as the root for mother:<\/p>\n
Sanskrit matr
\nOld English modor
\nLatin mater
\nOld Irish mathair
\nGreek meter
\nAvestan matar
\nRussian matka<\/p>\n
In the Greek, the verb root mu implied closed lips, silence, unspoken and is hence the basis of the word musterion (mystery) as in the Elesian mysteries, which involved worship of the great earth mother.<\/p>\n
A weird sidepoint is that the ancient Chinese earth mother goddess was called “shing moo”in some places and “ma tsoop” eslewhere with
\nthe moo and ma meaning mother.<\/p>\n
Greek (Indo European Language Group)
\nmu, muo verb closing of the lips
\nmu silence or unspoken
\nmuth myth, story
\nmuse muse, music
\nmusterion mystery<\/p>\n
It is highly likely Demeter is De- Meter: The-True Mother.<\/p>\n
Sumerian (Semitic Language Group)
\nama mother
\neme tongue, speech
\nma boat, depart
\nmamu dream
\nmarru flood
\nmaruru flood storm
\nmer storm wind, violent storm
\nmi woman
\nmu woman
\nmu name
\nmumu always being reborn
\nmunus woman
\nmul star, constellation
\nmur storm wind, violent storm
\numu older woman, nurse, teacher<\/p>\n
By J. Warren Wells. Please cite as source if you quote from this.<\/p>\n
“J. Warren Wells is a well-known Greek and Coptic researcher.” Logos Software.<\/p>\n
His books on Greek and Coptic can be found here:<\/p>\n
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