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Mubi-Toram is a group of languages in the Republic of Chad (some of them close to the border with Sudan). This group belongs to the eastern subbranch of Chadic and thus represents the member of the immense Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) macrofamily comprising six equipotential branches: Semitic, Egyptian, Berber, Cushitic, Omotic, and Chadic. Mubi-Toram is namely the last (26th) Chadic group in the classification proposed by H. Jungraithmayr (Jungraithmayr — Ibriszimow 1994, Vol. II, p. xv). This is one of the least studied Chadic groups from the standpoint of both lexicography and comparison. For each of its daughter languages we usually find just one wordlist, among them only Mubi is relatively better provided with sources.The success of modern research on Chadic phonological and lexical reconstruction (initiated by V. M. Illič-Svityč and P. Newman in the mid-1960s) fundamentally depends on how the inner reconstruction and the external (Afro-Asiatic) comparison of every single individual Chadic language group proceeds at the same time. Unfortunately, out of the 26 Chadic groups, only six (namely, Angas-Sura, Bole-Tangale, North Bauchi, Bura-Margi, Mafa-Mada, Kotoko) have been so far more or less satisfactorily studied from this viewpoint.Work on the planned comparative lexicon of the Mubi-Toram languages was begun by the author in the summer of 2008. The present series of papers is to integrate this remote lexical stock in its wider Chadic and Afro-Asiatic context by providing materials for the research outlined above.
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New Afro-Asiatic parallels are suggested for Egyptian lexical roots continued from the previous communications.
The paper presents the fourth part of a longer series devoted to the discussion of new Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) etymologies. The present contribution proposes a set of new lexical roots with *f- in the Anlaut.
The long-range series “Aegyptio-Afroasiatica”is devoted to the publication of new Afro-Asiatic etymologies of Egyptian lexical roots which have been identified in the course of my research on the “Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian”(EDE, Leiden, Brill, published since 1999). The underlying consonant correspondences the proposed etymologies are based on have been elaborated and demonstrated in EDE I. The numeration of the etymological entries in the present contribution continues that of the previous parts.
detailed discussion of the phenomena under scrutiny are: Amharic, Senaya (both Afro-Asiatic), Awtuw (Sepik), Chukchi (Chukotko-Kamchatkan), Eastern Mansi, Northern Khanty (both Uralic), Fore (Trans-New Guinea), Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi and Nepali (all Indo
to English original discourse ( Fig. 6 ), eight language families show more explicit reference in translation (Tai-Kadai, Sino-Tibetan, North-Eastern Tasmanian, Mongolic-Khitan, Indo-European, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, and Afro-Asiatic), while five