Re: Not "catching the wind " , or, what ARE we discussing?

> > Isn't the standard explanation with a geographical
> > distribution like
> > that to assume the word disappeared in the middle?
> >
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> but it seems as if the word never existed in Egyptian
> from what our colleagues are saying
>

How does one rule out a reading in a pictographic language? I thought
one found the phonetic shape of Egyptian words by back-constructing
them from Coptic?


Torsten