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If Gr. γύψος ‘chalk’ came from earlier *gupʰtʰios it’d be a perfect phonological match for Eg. kꜣ-f-tj-w ‘Crete’, showing the same γυ : kꜣ correspondence as Αἴγυπτος : ḥw.t-kꜣ-ptḥ. Crete of course being where the Mycenaeans got their gypsum (cf. Latin crēta ‘chalk’).