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**carinsurancess** · 07-07-2010, 06:35 AM

I think the Egyptian form for "judge" was wḏ'

We're talking Proto-Semitic level of depth here, not proto-Afro-Asiatic. Clearly the "judge" meaning is secondary to "powerful man/arbiter" meaning.

TBH, I'm not convinced that the Amharic and Tigrinya words aren't loanwords from Ge'ez (which would have received it from Aramaic or Hebrew).

07-07-2010, 06:35 AM	#19
carinsurancess Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 404 Senior Member	I think the Egyptian form for "judge" was wḏ' We're talking Proto-Semitic level of depth here, not proto-Afro-Asiatic. Clearly the "judge" meaning is secondary to "powerful man/arbiter" meaning. TBH, I'm not convinced that the Amharic and Tigrinya words aren't loanwords from Ge'ez (which would have received it from Aramaic or Hebrew).
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