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The English word mummy is derived from medieval Latin mumia, a borrowing of the Persian word mūm (موم), which means "bitumen". Because of the blackened skin, bitumen was once thought to be used extensively in ancient Egyptian embalming procedures. In English "mummy" as a term for a "medical preparation of the substance of mummies" is recorded from c. 1400, earlier than the sense of a complete body, with Richard Hakluyt in 1599 complaining that "these dead bodies are the Mummy which the Phisistians and Apothecaries doe against our willes make us to swallow".
The OED defines a mummy as "the body of a human being or animal enbalmed (according to the ancient Egyptian or some analogous method) as a preparation for burial", citing sources from 1615 onwards, later than the first uses of other senses that include ground up mummy used as "a medicinal preparation", which dates to c. 1400. However sense 3c: "A human or animal body desiccated by exposure to sun or air. Also applied to the frozen carcase of an animal imbedded in prehistoric ice", is cited to Chamber's Cyclopaedia, 1727-41, and the Victorian zoologist Francis Trevelyan Buckland.
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When was the mummy invented?
I think that the mummy was invented around 2600 BC.
Where does the word mummy come from as in mummification?
The word mummy comes from an Arabic word mumiya witch means bitumen. Bitumen is a black tar like substance.
What is the real name of the Mummy in the film The Mummy?
The 1932 The Mummy had the name of Im-Ho-Tep, also known as Ardeth Bey. In the first mummy film, Boris Karloff was the character of the mummy in that film. There was a sequence mummy movies after this and Boris Karloff played the mummy a few more times.
Who invented the word yesh?
The Great Karin invented the word ''yesh'' in 2004. Hope it helps!
What is a body preserved by drying is called?
It is called a mummy
When was the mummy invented?
I think that the mummy was invented around 2600 BC.
When was Sophie invented?
Her mummy and daddy
Who invented slushy magic?
Your mummy
What is a sentence for the word mummy?
The mummy seems to be missing.
How can the word mummy be used in a sentence?
There are mummy in the Egypt.
What is the Latin word for mummy?
The latin word for mummy is mater, which actually means mother.
Who invented the three wheeled pram?
my mummy
What is the meaning of mommy and mummy?
'Mummy' is the usual British word.
Is mummy a noun?
Yes, the word 'mummy' is a noun, a singular, common, concrete noun, a word for a thing.
What are synonyms of mummy?
Synonyms for "Mummy" meaning mother include"mamamamammamammymommommamommymumThere are no synonyms for "mummy" meaning the body of a human or animal that has been embalmed and prepared for burial, as according to the practices of the ancient Egyptians.
How do you translate mummy into German?
If it is 'mummy' as in your mother, then the word is Mumie (moom-eh).
How do you say mummy in Gaelic?
As in Egyptian mummy is seargán; as a word for mother it is mam/mamaí.
