Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian. : Volume Two / / Volume 2 : / Gábor Takács.

• VerfasserIn: Takács, Gábor, 1947-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 48/2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

The multi-volume Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian by Gábor Takács "promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative lingustics" (A. Dolgopolsky, in Israel Oriental Studies ). The amount of material offered, the extensive treatment of scholarly discussions on each item, and the insights into the connections of Egyptian and the related Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) languages, including many new lexical parallels, will make it an indispensable tool for comparative purposes and an unchallenged starting point for every linguist in the field. This second volume is in fact the first volume of the very etymological dictionary. It comprises the Egyptian words with initial b-, p-, and f-. The reader will find the etymological entries even more detailed than those of the introductory volume, due to the full retrospective presentation of all etymologies proposed since A. Erman's time, and thanks to an extremely detailed discussion of all possible relevant data even on the less known Afro-Asiatic cognates to the Egyptian roots.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction to the Etymological Dictionary -- Scope of EDE -- Reliability of comparisons -- Structure of entries -- Quotation of lexical data -- Transcription -- Abbreviations -- Abbreviations of languages -- Abbreviations of technical terms -- Abbreviations of author names -- b- -- p- -- f- -- Additional literature to EDE II -- Corrigenda to EDE I -- Handbuch der Orientalistik.