Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian: B-, P-, F- (2) (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES/HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK) - Hardcover

Takács, Gábor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004121218 ISBN 13: 9789004121218

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2001

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Gábor Takács, Ph.D. (1998) in Egyptology, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary, is Humboldt Research Fellow at Frankfurt University. He has published on Egyptian and Afro-Asiatic comparative phonology and lexicology.

Review

Reviews of volume 1:
Prof. A. Zaborski (Rocznik Orientalistyczny, Warszawa): '...the publication of the dictionary is 'a historic event'...'
Prof. A. Dogolpolsky (Israel Oriental Studies): '...promises to open a new chapter in Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic linguistics.'

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004121218
• ISBN 13: 9789004121218
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 672