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• All individual words were checked to look for doubtful entries.230
• Words in the Coffin Texts index other than those of three characters' length were
also checked although they have not been documented in the chart in appendix 2.
• The dictionary by Erman & Grapow (1926-1963) was scanned for additional words
from the Old and Middle Kingdoms which happen to be missing from the Coffin
Texts (problem: we cannot determine the token frequency in this case).
Three consonants (<>>, <j>, <n>) were not found to be subject to any strong restriction (but
for <»> K§° §3.n.3) and have consequently been omitted from the following chart. The
consonants as listed in the chart are rendered with the conventional transcription
symbols and must not therefore be interpreted as phonetic renderings.
23o To give an example, the appearance of 154 attested combinations of w and k as
compared to 555 expected combinations would not normally have led us to assume a
"strong restriction". However a closer examination of the attestations reveals that w
is the last consonant of nouns in 153 of these cases. Thus -w is likely to be explained
as the nominal suffix -w, i.e. as a different morpheme. For g +1, appendix 2 actually
lists more attestations (51) than the 39 statistically expected, however 48 of these
51 attestations pertain to the particle grt which is likely to be composed with the
nominal suffix -t.
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• Words in the Coffin Texts index other than those of three characters' length were
also checked although they have not been documented in the chart in appendix 2.
• The dictionary by Erman & Grapow (1926-1963) was scanned for additional words
from the Old and Middle Kingdoms which happen to be missing from the Coffin
Texts (problem: we cannot determine the token frequency in this case).
Three consonants (<>>, <j>, <n>) were not found to be subject to any strong restriction (but
for <»> K§° §3.n.3) and have consequently been omitted from the following chart. The
consonants as listed in the chart are rendered with the conventional transcription
symbols and must not therefore be interpreted as phonetic renderings.
23o To give an example, the appearance of 154 attested combinations of w and k as
compared to 555 expected combinations would not normally have led us to assume a
"strong restriction". However a closer examination of the attestations reveals that w
is the last consonant of nouns in 153 of these cases. Thus -w is likely to be explained
as the nominal suffix -w, i.e. as a different morpheme. For g +1, appendix 2 actually
lists more attestations (51) than the 39 statistically expected, however 48 of these
51 attestations pertain to the particle grt which is likely to be composed with the
nominal suffix -t.
196