Key to Exercise 24 from Allen

• 3

  Note: In some constructions with the negative verb tm, nominal subjects follow the negatival complement; cf. § 14.18 and § 19.11.3. Apparently, this does not hold in the case of relative forms, as the example shows.

• 5

  Note: In the key, the use of the verb "can" is due to interpretation. This we have seen before in the case of a perfective form in Exercise 23, no. 25, and possibly an imperfective form in Exercise 20, no. 15. See also no. 29 below.

• 10

  Note: In the key, the comment ``(2ms stative)'' should not be interpreted as that the stative would have a special form for 2ms as opposed to 2fs. That we know the subject is masculine is due to the suffix .k.

• 13

  Note: In the key, for the second occurrence of r read n.

• 18

  Note: Given the entry for Hrw in the dictionary on p. 464, with the same hieroglyphic writing as in the exercise, it seems preferable to transliterate Hrw, rather than Hrww as in the key, and translate by "a plot", in the singular, rather than "plots".

• 22

  Note: In the key, jmj should be jm(j).

• 28

  Note: In the key, for j.zj read j.z(j) r.k.

• 30

  Note: dp, "taste", is here used metaphorically. Since rS is given as adjective on p. 462, it may not be the most direct analysis to take the form rSwj to consist of a participle of the verb rSj/rSw used as adjective.

• 36

  Note: Literally, "One did not know ...".

• 37

  Note: Cf. § 14.14.7.

• 38

  Note: In the key, for Hnwt read Hnwwt.

• 40

  Note: In the key, after "lord of Abydos" insert "the great god". For Ssr read Ssrw.