Talk:ἄμι

, is there an actual Egyptian etymon or is this a shot in the philological dark? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:58, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
 * back in 1891 proposed a derivation from, but this was quickly disproven when showed that that word referred to a kind of cereal — in any case, the phonological match was already problematic. Hemmerdinger 1968, “Noms Communs Grecs d'Origine Egyptienne”, makes a new attempt and gives it as coming from 🇨🇬. Pierce 1971, “Egyptian Loan-words in Ancient Greek”, is critical of Hemmerdinger and notes in this particular case that the reading of  is very uncertain: others have read the word as variously , , , and the Wörterbuch gives references to other similar words for medicinal plants , ,  that may or may not also represent the same word. Since both the meaning and reading of  are uncertain, Pierce is loath to accept it as an etymon. Still, I suppose it remains possible, if far from proven. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 15:44, 4 January 2020 (UTC)