rongo Posted March 9, 2017 Posted March 9, 2017 I have a high school student who wants to know more about his name. He's a scholarly type, and would love to have as much information as he can from Hebrew, Egyptian, or native Central American linguistics as possibilities for "Teancum." I told him I would get back to him. I have some linguistic stuff, but nothing on Teancum. Brant Gardner? Or anyone else? Feel free to chime in! Thanks!
notHagoth7 Posted March 9, 2017 Posted March 9, 2017 I'm no ancient eastern linguist (but I did walk through a Holiday Inn Express once): Te - ? -ankh (Egyptian: life eternal) -um (plural ending) And/or...: http://inthecavityofarock.blogspot.com/2012/08/captain-teancum-vs-tecun-uman.html ...“The legend of the national hero of Guatemala, Tecun Uman (also written Tecum Umam), is based in part on the history of Teancum. Even the name Te-cum is from Te-an-cum. In Quiché they refer to him as the “Lord of the Banners and Staffs”. Te-an-cum literally means “pole - up high - coat” or “coat up high on a pole”, as in “Title of Liberty.”... And/or...? 1
Robert F. Smith Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 2 hours ago, notHagoth7 said: I'm no ancient eastern linguist (but I did walk through a Holiday Inn Express once): Te - ? -ankh (Egyptian: life eternal) -um (plural ending) And/or...: http://inthecavityofarock.blogspot.com/2012/08/captain-teancum-vs-tecun-uman.html ...“The legend of the national hero of Guatemala, Tecun Uman (also written Tecum Umam), is based in part on the history of Teancum. Even the name Te-cum is from Te-an-cum. In Quiché they refer to him as the “Lord of the Banners and Staffs”. Te-an-cum literally means “pole - up high - coat” or “coat up high on a pole”, as in “Title of Liberty.”... And/or...? Latin te cum "with you," as in Ave Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum, "Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee." In ancient Late Egyptian, te is the definite article "the," allowing you to come up with "The-eternal-Lives," though that sounds a bit odd. Ancient Egyptian te can also mean "land," thus allowing something like "Land of Eternal Life," but these are speculations. One can compare actual ancient Egyptian names such as Teumman, Tewure "The Great One," timsah "(the)crocodile," etc.
Okrahomer Posted March 10, 2017 Posted March 10, 2017 From the BYU Book of Mormon Onomasticon: Etymology It was the NEPHITE custom to name a city after the first person who settled there. Therefore it is possible that the GN came from a PN. It is also possible that a person could be named after a GN. The name may not even be Lehite, since it exhibits consonant clusters that resemble JAREDITE names. See for example, RIPLIANCUM and MORIANCUMER are the only other Book of Mormon names with the consonant cluster nc; both of these names are exclusively JAREDITE. Further, if the names were HEBREW in origin, the n sound would be assimilated to the sound of the following consonant; thus -nc- would become -cc- or -c-. However, if TEANCUM is not a uniformly JAREDITE name, then several suggestions for the derivation of the name from Hebrew can be made. If it is possible to separate the element te- of the PN TEANCUM from the element -ancum (one may note that the demonstrative m.s. pronoun in Hebrew is zēh in Hebrew, dā in Aramaic and dū in Ugaritic) and if the Mulekites pronounced that demonstrative pronoun /dē/, or even /tē/, the name would then mean, “The one of/from Ancum,” from the hypothetical Book of Mormon name *Ancum. It would be tempting to but difficult to derive *ancum from the biblical Hebrew ʿănāq (Anak in the King James Bible). The vowel between the n and the q is long and would not elide even in the plural, ʿănāqîm. Cf. Book of Mormon TEOMNER, CUMORAH, et al. Variants Deseret Alphabet: 𐐓𐐀𐐈𐐤𐐗𐐊𐐣 (tiːænkʌm) Notes << Teancum >>
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