Hameo-Semitic

[Herb Stahlke]

There are all of three hits on Google for Hameo-Semitic.  One is
proprietary.  The other two lead to a wiki on "Israelites" where
"Hameo-Semitic" appears in the sentence:

It should be noted, however, that contemporary Ancient Egyptian iconography
(for example, the images on the thrones of
Tutankhamen<http://www.wikimirror.com/Tutankhamen>Tutankhamun
(alternate transcription Tutankhamen), named Tutankhaten early in his life,
was Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt (1334 BC/1333 BC - 1323 BC),
during the period known as the New Kingdom. His original name Tutankhaten
means "Living Image of Aten" while Tutankhamun means "Living Image of Amun".
He is possibly also the Nibhurrereya of the Amarna letters....
*[click for more]* and grave images) shows a people of olive brown
complections and
Hameo-Semitic<http://www.wikimirror.com/link.php?url=/w/index.php?title=Hameo-Semitic&action=edit>features.

I'm not sure what Hameo/Hamito-Semitic features would even look like, but
there's a good article on the history of the term "Semitic" in the Journal
of African History:

*The Hamitic Hypothesis; Its Origin and Functions in Time
Perspective*<http://www.jstor.org.proxy.bsu.edu/view/00218537/ap010030/01a00020/0?currentResult=00218537%2bap010030%2b01a00020%2b0%2cEB1F&searchUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FAdvancedResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26q0%3DHamitic%26f0%3D%26c0%3DAND%26ar%3Don%26sd%3D%26ed%3D%26la%3D%26ic%3D00218537%26ic%3D00218537%26node.African+Studies%3D1%26node.History%3D1>
Edith R. Sanders<http://www.jstor.org.proxy.bsu.edu/search/BasicResults?Search=Search&Query=aa:%22Edith%20R.%20Sanders%22&hp=25&si=1>
 *The Journal of African
History*<http://www.jstor.org.proxy.bsu.edu/browse/00218537>> Vol.
10, No. 4 <http://www.jstor.org.proxy.bsu.edu/browse/00218537/ap010030>(1969),
pp. 521-532

Herb

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> And I'd bet money that Jen pronounces it "Hameo-Semetic," just as
> surely as I fail to distinguish "Jen" from "gin," except in spelling.
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> -Wilson
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> >  In other words, Hamito-Semitic.  Not in OED:
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> >   2003 Jennifer Caban in _Parabola_ (Winter) 32: You might have taken
> him for any dark young man of Hameo-Semitic stock.
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