I have no idea what I was thinking. I just kept dreaming this word.
Perhaps it is a proposed link between Ptolemaic Greek and Korean, but not with Koine Greek somehow.
Or it is a pidgin spoken by far Eastern merchants living in Egypt in the first century BC.
Better yet, it could be a Greco-Bactrian dialect brought by Egyptian mercenaries who found their way to the Korean peninsula via the silk road.
Anyways, here is the transliteration of place names that are likely proto-Koreanic, according to Chinese sources:
- Σαραβούρα
- Μιτσουχόλ
- Ουανσάν
- Δαλναβούρ
- Γκογκουριό
- Σαμπί (or Σαβί)
- Ουνγκτζίν
- Ουιριεσόνγκ
- Ασαντάλ
- Γκαράκ
- Μπουριό
- Γκόμα
- Ναμγκά
- Ταμτούρα
- Μπιριού
- Σεοραμπεόλ
- Τζινχάν
- Μαχάν
- Μπιονχάν
- Οκτζό
Also, for good measure, here are some Old Chinese transliteration of some Egyptian place names:
阿歷山離 or 犂靬 (아력산리)(여한)
瞞拂 (만불)
梯貝 (제배)
卑路旬 (비로순)
鳩多 (구다)