ABSTRACT
The pioneer work in Egypto-Semitic was a study by Erman published in 1892 which began a fruitful four decades or so of scholarly contributions to this field. This stage of Egypto-Semitic studies culminated in the major compilations of cognates by Ember (1930), Calice (1936) and M Cohen (1947). Numerous scholars have made lesser contributions (surveyed by Conti, 1978: 1 ff), but the basic word-lists and the resulting pattern of phonetic correspondences were established by the 1930’s. During this period, of course, research was also being done in comparative grammar, morphology, etc, but these matters are not the subject of the present essay.
