Traces of Old Egyptian in Eurasian languages?

The etymology for most of those "cognates" seems quite strained when you consider that even reconstructions of Proto-Germanic roots can be controversial. Especially when you only have a single sound to match, it is very easy to come up with bullshit "correspondences" that are mere coincidence.

Most languages have common utterances for mother/father and other family members. This is because these are easy, early sounds a baby can make. Some variation of da, ma, pa, na occurs fairly universally.

There’s a pretty good episode of Lexicon Valley on this topic (see cavebabies say ‘mama’)

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley.html

Columbia pop-linguist McWhorter suggests strong verbs in Germanic languages may have been a Semitic influence.

Some of this is mistaking just how much we know of Egyptian phonology, which is actually very little. For some proper names, we have more context into how they may have actually sounded based on transscriptions into Greek and Latin. But for every other word, we flat out have no idea on vowel sounds, because they were not written. Because of this, a couple sounds known as semivowels are sometimes transcribed as if they were vowels. For instance, in mother, the second glyph of a chick (𓅱) is marked as a U, but would be more appropriately be W. Same with the reeds (𓇋), which are sometimes marked as I but are rather Y. (And, in this article, apparently also FE...)

I think it's also interesting that they are using mother and father, considering that those words have commonalities in sound across large swathes of human language. Unless the author is also ready to argue Egyptian influence on Chinese, evidence should extend to other words.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mama_and_papa

EDIT:

Every dictionary I can find lists father as it, which alone would need explanation for how the article arrives at feathav using the same signs. I'll just link the most comprehensive one:

https://www.scribd.com/doc/10929802/Dictionary-of-Middle-Egy...

When you search, the relevant entry is the "plants 12" result.

The information density of that map is pretty amazing