Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ḳas-

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

Root

*ḳas-^[1]

bone

Alternative reconstructions

*ḳos-^[2]
*ḳVs, *ḳi̥s, *ḳic, *ḳəs, *ḳəc

Descendants

Proto-Berber: *e-ɣăst (see there for further descendants)
Proto-Chadic: *ḳas- (see there for further descendants)^[3]
Cushitic:
- Daasanach: ʼgás (“leg; foot”)
Proto-Omotic: *ḳos-
- Dizoid:
  - Dizin: ኡሱ (usu)
  - Nayi: k'us
- Aroid:
  - Dime: kʼuus
Egyptian: qs (see there for further descendants)
>? Semitic:
- Arabic: قَصّ (qaṣṣ, “sternum”)
- Ge'ez: [script needed] (qʷəyṣ, “shinbone”)

References

^ Bomhard, Allan R. (2014), Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎^[1], Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 190.
^ Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 126), Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 240
^ Olga Stolbova (2016), Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎^[2], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pages 238-240

[1] Bomhard, Allan R. (2014), Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎^[1], Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 190.

[2] Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 126), Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 240

[3] Olga Stolbova (2016), Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎^[2], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pages 238-240

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