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Name 201576

Name
Merkouriosphoros
Gender
male
Structure
compound
Type
hybrid
Genealogy
Greco-Latin
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲟⲩⲣⲓⲟⲥ, 'Merkurios' + ⲫⲟⲣⲟⲥ, 'bearing' = 'bearing Merkurios'. Inspiration: general of Cappadocia, martyr under Decius.
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proper noun: saint
combination: name+participle
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Name 201580

Name
Merchani
Gender
female
Structure
simple?
Type
monolingual?
Genealogy
Blemmyan/Beja?
Origin
foreign?
Etymology
Meaning: probably cognate with the Bedauye 'melh', 'to lead' + '-ani', 1st person sing. present tenst = 'I lead' (Reinisch 1895, p. 169).
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Name 201581

Name
Mercho
Gender
female
Structure
simple?
Type
monolingual?
Genealogy
Blemmyan/Beja?
Origin
foreign?
Etymology
Meaning: probably cognate with the Bedauye 'melh', 'to lead' (Reinisch 1895, p. 169).
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Name 201583

Name
Meskekoussan
Gender
 
Structure
 
Type
 
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Origin
 
Etymology
This is a ghost-name; for a corrected reading, see Ref 703847 Nam 201345.
Literature
NOM 4, no. 34b
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Name 201584

Name
Meskel
Gender
 
Structure
 
Type
 
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Origin
 
Etymology
This is a ghost-name. The word appears to designate either an official title or kinship term.
Literature
NOM 4, no. 4d
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Name 201585

Name
Meskisi
Gender
unknown
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: perhaps cognate with the Nubiin ⲙⲉⲥⲕ-, 'to not be able to; to be exhausted' + -ⲥⲓ (deverbative abstract-substantive formant) = 'impossibility'?
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common word: noun
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Name 201586

Name
Metolkitol
Gender
unknown
Structure
compound
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲙⲉⲧⲟⲗ-, perhaps cognate with the Nobiin ⲙⲉⲧⲗⲟⲩⲅ, ‘cover, cloak’ + ⲕⲓⲧⲟ-, ‘to put on oneself’ + -ⲗ (participle) = ‘the one who puts a cloak on him/herself’, i.e. ‘the one who wears a cloak’.
Literature
NOM 4, no. 1a
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Name 201588

Name
Menakouda
Gender
male
Structure
compound
Type
hybrid
Genealogy
Greco-Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲙⲏⲛⲁ, 'Menas' + -ⲕⲟⲩⲇⲁ, 'servant' = 'servant of Menas'. Inspiration: soldier and martyr celebrated at Abu Mena.
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proper noun: saint
combination: name+noun
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Name 201593

Name
Kadjonjourta
Gender
male
Structure
compound?
Type
monolingual?
Genealogy
Nubian?
Origin
local?
Etymology
The name seems to be Nubian, although the letter ϫ does not occur in Old Nubian and the element ⲕⲁϫⲟ- is otherwise unidentifiable. The element ⳝⲟⲩⲣⲧⲁ, however, can be analysed as ⳝⲟⲩⲣ-, 'to go' + -ⲧⲁ (abstract deverbative formant) = 'going' / 'coming'. Since the word is attested as a second element of a double name, it may refer to the origin of the person and hence ⲕⲁϫⲟⲛ would designate a toponym.
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Name 201594

Name
Sonnijaasta
Gender
male
Structure
compound
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲥⲟⲛⲛⲉⲓⳝⲁ- (meaning unknown, perhaps proper name?) + ⲁⲥⲧ-, 'daughter' + -ⲁ = 'daughter of Sonnija'?
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Name 201596

Name
Migiti
Gender
unknown
Structure
simple
Type
monolingual
Genealogy
Nubian
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧ-, 'Nobadia' + -ⲓ = 'Nobadia'.
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proper noun: toponym
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Name 201609

Name
Milanya
Gender
unknown
Structure
compound?
Type
hybrid?
Genealogy
Semito-Nubian?
Origin
local
Etymology
Meaning: ⲙⲓⲗ-, probably hypocoristic for or abbreviation of ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ + ⲁⳡ-, 'to live' + -ⲁ (predicative) = 'living Michael' or 'Michael lives'? Otherwise, cf. ⲙⲓⲉⲗ-, 'fault', or ⲙⲓⲗⲗ̄-, 'bad', but they seem hardly likely as onomastic elements. Inspiration: one of Archangels.
Literature
NOM 4, no. 25p
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Religious character

proper noun: archangel
combination: name+participle
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