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Misr was the historical Zensunni (Fremen) term for themselves: "The People". The Misr Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba.
Behind the scenes
- Miṣr is the Arabic and modern official name of Egypt. The word is of Semitic origin, directly related to other Semitic words for Egypt such as the Hebrew "מִצְרַיִם" ("Mitzrááim") and Akkadian "mi-iṣ-ru" ("miṣru") and originally connoted "metropolis" or "civilization" and means "country", or "frontier-land".