The Destruction of ‘Mankind’

The phonological changes undergone by the word rmṯ , ‘person’, are shown to have clashed with its emblematic and almost logographic written form established at the end of the Old Kingdom. The orthography of the lexeme was highly resistant to alterations in its phonology, which resulted in two change...

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Main Author: Uljas, Sami (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2022
In: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Year: 2022, Volume: 149, Issue: 2, Pages: 274-280
Further subjects:B grammaticalisation
B grammatical gender
B Diachrony
B emblematic writings
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