The ideas of this paper were originally presented at the 5th International Conference on Cushitic and Omotic
Languages (Paris, 16–18 April 2008), but the text is not going to be published in its proceedings (which are still
just forthcoming in early 2012).The long awaited
Comparative Dictionary of the Agaw Languages
published most
recently by David Appleyard (2006) presents a precious etymological treatment not only
for specialists of Agaw and Cushitic, but also from the standpoint of our current research
on comparative Afro-Asiatic lexicon. The present paper is to examine Appleyard’s material
and suggestions from these aspects for possible addenda and corrigenda
