^{page 154 note 2} Cf. my forthcoming article on Hebraic elements in Abyssinian Christianity.

^{page 155 note 1} The historical details of that migration are discussed in the introduction to my Comparative Phonology of the Semitic Languages of Ethiopia, London, 1955.

^{page 155 note 2} ESA = Epigraphic South-Arabian.

^{page 155 note 3} See the review article in Orientalia, 1954, pp. 324–5. As to the vocalization of the ESA impf., M. Hoefner (ASA Gramm., p. 69) remarks: ‘Im übrigen können wir auch bier hinsichtlich der Aussprache dem Beispiel des Nordarabischen folgen und yaqtulu usw. vokalisieren.’ I am aware of no evidence to support this statement.

^{page 155 note 4} Jahn, , Mehri Sprache, Vienna, 1902.Google Scholar

^{page 155 note 5} Leslau, , Lexigm Soqotri, Paris, 1938.Google Scholar

^{page 155 note 6} Bittner, , Studien zur Šhauri Sprache, Vienna, 1916.Google Scholar

^{page 155 note 7} See Beeston, A. F. L., Le Muséon, 1953, p. 178Google Scholar; Ryckmans, G., Le Muséon, 1953, p. 302Google Scholar; Ullendorff, , Orientalia, 1954, p. 328.Google Scholar

^{page 156 note 1} In the 2nd f. sing, palatalization to -Š has taken place, as is the case in Amharic; see below for further details.

^{page 156 note 2} See also the pertinent remarks in Rabin, , West-Arabian, p. 51.Google Scholar

^{page 156 note 3} The special ESA—Gə'əz affinity in this word can scarcely be doubted despite Arabic ö .

^{page 156 note 4} This root (as well as some of the others) exists, of course, also elsewhere, notably in Arabic, but I am concerned here with the special semantic development which is common to ESA and Ethiopic only.

^{page 156 note 5} Cf. BSOAS, 1953, 1, pp. 158–9.

^{page 156 note 6} From which ‘Mecca’ is allegedly derived; cf. Hitti, , History of the Arabs⁴, p. 103Google Scholar; Wissmann-Hoefner, , Hist. Geoff: d. vorislam. Südarabien, p. 12Google Scholar; Ullendorff, E., Orientalia, 1954, p. 320.Google Scholar

^{page 156 note 7} Spoken in the area largely identical with the old Aksumite Empire and thus—at least geographically—the direct successor of Gə'əz. Official language of Eritrea; regular newspapers since 1942, but otherwise Tňa literature is still in its infancy. Tňa is spoken by the monophysite Christian population of die northern Abyssinian plateau. Cf. for further details the introductory chapters to the present writer's Comp. Phonology.—Tňa = Tigriňa = təgrəňňa.

^{page 156 note 8} The official language of the Ethiopian Empire. Spoken over large areas of central Ethiopia, pre-dominantly by Christians. The most widely used of the Semitic languages of Ethiopia, with an incipient literature. Further details in op. cit.—Abbreviated Amh.

^{page 156 note 9} See BSOAS, 1953, 1, pp. 157/8.

^{page 156 note 10} Tigre is spoken by some 200,000 people in the eastern, northern, and western lowlands of Eritrea as well as in some parts of the Kassala province of the Sudan. Pastoral and nomadic elements, mostly Muslim, predominate. See also op. cit., introduction.

^{page 157 note 1} Cf. Bittner, , Šhauri Sprache, p. 20.Google Scholar

^{page 157 note 2} Ullendorff, op. cit., chapter on palatalization of velars.

^{page 157 note 3} See, for instance, Dillmann in his grammar and dictionary.

^{page 157 note 4} By Thomas, D. Winton, Tht Recovery of the Ancient Hebrew Language, C.U.P. 1939, p. 19.Google Scholar

^{page 158 note 1} Koehler, , Lexicon, p. 510Google Scholar, is wrong in supposing that this root is ‘wanting in Ethiopic’. This is, unhappily, one of many instances of the weakness of this new dictionary in the South Semitic field.

^{page 158 note 2} Cf. Scottish Historical Review, Oct. 1953, p. 136, note 9.

^{page 158 note 3} Cf. Comp. Phonology under 6th order.

^{page 158 note 4} JRAS, 1878.

^{page 158 note 5} Anthropos, 1919–20.

^{page 158 note 6} Ethnologie und Geographie, &c, p. 153.

^{page 158 note 7} BSL, 1932.

^{page 158 note 8} JAOS, 1944.