The epistolary terms k't, k'nt in official Aramaic, the feminine endings in Aramaic dialects and other dialectal features in the history of Aramaic

This paper concentrates on the etymology of the epistolary terms k't, k'nt in Official Aramaic and proposes that they are related to the root k-'-n, used both in official correspondence from Middle Assyrian and in the Amarna letters. In this discussion various dialectal features in the history of Aramaic are discussed, among them: rule ordering with regards to the assimilation of the consonant -n, and the insertion of an anaptyxis between clusters of two final consonants; the existence of two allomorphs in Aramaic for the feminine ending, -at and -t; and a consideration of the existence of some connection between the dialect of the Sefire inscription and the dialect of the Hermopolis letters.