Re: [tied] AfroAsiatic "four"

From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6764
Date: 2001-03-26

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 05:04:30 , "Glen Gordon"
<glengordon01@...> wrote:

>Thanx a bunchkins for the correction. Holding off on the IE connection for a
>moment, I'm no expert in Egyptian studies, I'll be the first to admit, but I
>have been led to believe the reverse sound correspondance by my own
>intuition - that an earlier labialized *h became Egyp /f/.

A sorted list of the Chadic words for "4" (taken off Mark
Rosenfelder's site) is:

with f-:
fid`i, fíd`i:?i:, fùd`ì?i, fidi, food, fá'dà, fa:da, fudu, fwed`à,
fwed`è, fad`à, fwar^, fwòd`u, fod`ù, fòd`ù, fwád`ú, fwàre, fidi,
fwad`ù?, fwey, fwàt, ùfád`á, ?ùfwàd`e, ofuda, ?ufad`à, ùfúd`, fid`ì,
ufad, fad`, fad`, mufát, ùfád`, fúd`ù, ùfád`, fwot, fâ't, fa, fwád,
fa:t, ?ùnfwed`, fwet, fwet, furu, fèd`u, fód`d`ó, fád`àu, fad`èu, fÍr,
fer, féer, fer, fIr, fe, fei, fúd`, fud, fúd, fudu, fed`u, fud`u,
fód`ì, faad`u, fíd`í, fid`ì, fe|d`e|, fúd`ù, féd`è

with h-:
herái, hud`u, huru, hwèd`o, hòd`ò, hud`u, bíhúd`ì

with p-, b`-:
peri, poring, pórbu, pori, pìd`é, pòòt, póod`í, paadang, púdú:, pú'dú,
pôdô, pad`u, páryá, paraw, ped`èyù, prau, píít, pú'
b`árás

with w-, v-, u-, etc:
wayti, woli, woro, we, wedi, wupse, wupsì, wúpsí, wupsì, wupsi, wupsì,
wùpsu, woptsèì, ua:da, ooso, uusu, ustù, vat, vada, ved`i

others:
ga:de, waga:de, ga:de, ka:di, twsít

For Chadic, a reconstruction like *<p.wat.> (or *<fwad.>) seems to be
in the right ballpark.

In Egyptian, /f/ usually comes from PAA */p./ (ejective labial).
E.g.: <`ff> "fly" :: Sem. *<d_bb> "fly"; <sfxw> "7" :: Sem. <sb3=t>
"7". Occasionally, <f> can reflect (labialized) */h/ or */s^/.

>Question: How does the Egyptian masculine 3ps /-f/ relate to AA?

*-s^u.

Full details in e.g. Loprieno pp. 63-67. Old Egyptian had the
following personal pronominal markers:

suffix enclitic independent stative
1. -j (*-aj) *-wj (*-wVj) jnk (*?anaku) -kj
2m. -k (*-ku) *-kw (*-kuw) ntk (*?antaku) -tj
2f. -T (*-ki) *-Tm (*-kim) ntT (*?antaki) ,,
3m. -f (*-su) *-sw (*-suw) ntf (*?antasu) -j
3f. -s (*-si) *-sj (*-sij) nts (*?antasi) -tj

1d. -nj (*-inij) --
2d. -Tnj (*-kinij) -- -twnj
3d. -snj (*-sinij) ntsnj (*?antasinij) -wj

1p. -n (*-ina) jnn (*?anana) -wjn
2p. -Tn (*-kina) ntTn (*?antakina) -twjn
3p. -sn (*-sina) ntsn (*?antasina) -wj, f. -tj

Additionally, early Eg. had independent pronouns singular 2m. <Twt>,
2f. <Tmt>, 3m. <swt>, 3f. <stt> (i.e. enclitic form + -Vt(V)). Later
Egyptian added a proclitic series (twj-, twk-/twt-, sw-/st-; twn-,
twtn-, st-).

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