Layers of the oldest Egyptian lexicon VIII: Numerals

Gábor Takács (Department of Egyptology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)

Journal of Language Relationship, № 14/1-2, 2016 - p.119-151

Abstract: This paper belongs to a series of publications whose goal is to survey the most ancient part of Egyptian basic lexicon, classified by semantical domains, in order to stratify the different lexical layers (wherever they are present) in the light of Semitic vs. African Afro-Asiatic dichotomy, which was already suggested by P. Lacau several decades ago. The current paper focuses on the etymologies of Egyptian numerals.

Keywords: Ancient Egyptian, Afro-Asiatic languages, etymology, historical phonology, numerals

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