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Re: Egyptian based Conlangs

From:Sheets, Jeff <jsheets@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 16, 1998, 14:49
Well, thanks Sally, you're making me spend $62 on a hunt for Egyptian Verbs.
I guess we can call this my gift to myself for Christmas....  Now, what am I
gonna call that new computer game I'm buying????? :)

> I have out of the library Alan Gardiner's vast 1927 _Egyptian Grammar_. > Unlike Budge, it seems, there is ample discussion of the complex Egyptian > verb. Lessons XXI through XXIII cover such things as the verb classes, > voice, mood, tense, the prothetic, reduplication, bilateral/trilateral > verbs, compound verbs, denominative verbs, the infinitive (if that's what > Egyptian has), the infinitive as substitute for a noun clause (which is > what Teonaht does in spades--including marking objects of the infinitive > by a kind of genitive...all discovered after I had picked up the Egyptian > book), the old perfective, etc. etc. etc. I, too, had a fancy for the idea > of Teonaht borrowings from Egyptian, given the T's interest in Bastet and > so forth. > > I also learned from this book that Coptic has "adjective-verbs" like "to > be small," which is what the Teonaht "-ndi" verbs do, probably much less > complexly. > > Sally > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Sally Caves > scaves@frontiernet.net > http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/teonaht.html > http://www.frontiernet.net/~scaves/contents.html > > Aro le thena neom, ma haikkebo vera. > "Snow breathes on us but doesn't fall." > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >