Wednesday, April 29, 2009

New Meanings for Established Meroitic Signs

There are 26 Merotitic signs which researchers agreed had established meanings before my decipherment of Meroitic. My identification of Tokharian/Kushana as the language of the Meroitic inscriptions has led me to accept some, but not all of the “established meanings for the Meroitic terms listed below:

“established Meroitic meanings” ...........alternative Meroitic meanings


at, ‘bread .....................................................‘down the road’


wi, ‘brother ...................................................‘honor’


sem, wife .................................................... sm, ‘protection,refuge’


kdi, woman....................................................... woman


st,foot/feet .........................................................------


edhe,tedhe, born by ..........................................------


el,l,yel, give ........................................................e ‘give’; gift


mk, deity............................................................ ‘diety’


lh, great ..............................................................‘great’


mlo, good............................................................. ml, ‘under influence, soul
ml-o, spiritual


mte, small,little................................................... ‘to unlock, to open’


qore, ruler .............................................................qor, ‘royal’; female royal:‘qor-i’
male royal:‘qor-e’


kdike, queen’s sister’ ...............................................------


tñyi, lion...................................................................... -------


abr, ‘man’ ..................................................................ab/ ap, ancestor, father


ste, ‘mother’................................................................. ‘mother’


s, person......................................................................... s, man, king
še, son
šr, sister


abd, province..................................................................ab ‘father, ancestor


kdis, sister .......................................................................kdi ‘woman’


ato, water.............................................................................. -------


erike, terike,.........................................................................yerike ‘begotten of’ terike, ‘fashion and revitalize’

rike,....................................................................................... ‘indeed to sojour’
yerike..................................................................... ‘on a journey to invigorate’, ‘revitalize , to give form to’

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