Weird Words » egyptian http://www.weirdwords.com your source for weird words or phrase origins Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:38:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Mummy http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/mummy/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mummy http://www.weirdwords.com/2010/03/07/mummy/#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:09:47 +0000 dave http://www.weirdwords.com/?p=158 The word was derived from the Persian language. The Egyptians used resin as one of the main ingredients in perserving their dead.

The word for resin in the Persian language is ‘mumme’. The Egyptians thought that they were referring to the perserved people, and not the resin.
The name just stuck.

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