ABSTRACT
The consideration of the Egyptian verb, or stem-word, is a difficult subject, and one which can only be properly illustrated by a large number of extracts from texts of all periods. Egyptologists have, moreover, agreed neither as to the manner in which it should be treated, nor as to the classification of the forms which have been distinguished. The older generation of scholars were undecided as to the class of languages under which the Egyptian language should be placed, and contented themselves with pointing out grammatical forms analogous to those in Coptic, and perhaps in some of the Semitic dialects; but recently the relationship of Egyptian to the Semitic languages has been boldly affirmed, and as a result the nomenclature of the Semitic verb or stem-word has been applied to that of Egyptian.
