Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ʔab-

This Proto-Afroasiatic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Afroasiatic

    Noun

    *ʔab-[1]

    1. father

    Coordinate terms

    Descendants

    • Proto-Berber: *abba
      • Northern Berber:
      • Tuareg:
    • Chadic:
    • Cushitic:
      • Qimant: ኣባ (abaa)
      • Afar: abba
      • Somali: aabbe (“father”), abbaan (“protector”)
      • Aasax: aba
    • Egyptian: ꜣbwt
    • Proto-Semitic: *ʔabw- (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*ʔab-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 2, page 1
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