Semitic and Egyptian Comparisons

HE existence of a Hamito-Semitic family is firmly established.' The comparative studies going back to the beginning of the nineteenth century sufficiently prove that Semitic, Egyptian, Cushitic, and Berber have common features in morphology and in vocabulary.2 The roots common to Egyptian and Semitic are presented in a useful manner in A. Ember, Egypto-Semitic Studies (Leipzig, 1930), and in F. Calice, Grundlagen der dgyptisch-semitischen Wortvergleichung (Wien, 1936). An excellent summary of the morphological features with lists of words common to Hamito-Semitic