Another amazingly detailed post from Polyglot Vegetarian: everything you could want to know about k3mwtt and other Egyptian words for wheat and similar grains, complete with excursuses into Wallis Budge, Unicode, and Afro-Asiatic cognates. I am in awe of this man, and hope I get to eat his cooking someday.
Posted by languagehat at February 15, 2007 09:11 PMYou're very kind.
Caution may be advised with someone who has cookbooks in languages he isn't fluent in.
Posted by: MMcM at February 18, 2007 10:12 PM