Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sea peoples

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables: sea peo-ples
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.

Etymology

Calque of Egyptian nꜣ ḫꜣswt nt pꜣ ym (“the peoples/foreigners of the sea”), as written in the Great Karnak Inscription.

Inflected Forms

the Sea Peoples (canonical, plural)

Questions

What does sea peoples mean?: A confederacy of seafaring raiders of unknown nationality who invaded the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age.
Where does sea peoples come from?: Calque of Egyptian nꜣ ḫꜣswt nt pꜣ ym (“the peoples/foreigners of the sea”), as written in the Great Karnak Inscription.

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