Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/-u

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

Suffix 1

*-u

Masculine suffix
Antonym: *-i

Derived terms

*ku

Suffix 2

*-u

Nominative suffix

Absolutive	Nominative	Genitive
*-a	*-u	*-i

Descendants

Cushitic:^[1]
Egyptian:^[2]
Proto-Semitic: *-u, *-um

Suffix 3

*-u

Plural suffix
Synonym: *-n

Descendants

Egyptian: -w
Semitic:
- Akkadian: -ū

References

Ehret, Christopher. 1995. Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): vowels, tone, consonants, and vocabulary. University of California Press. →ISBN.

^ Blažek, Václav. (2006). “Traces of a Common Case System in Afroasiatic.” In Loquentes Linguis: Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, edited by P. G. Borbone, A. Mengozzi, and M. Tosco, 91–101. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz
^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55

[1] Blažek, Václav. (2006). “Traces of a Common Case System in Afroasiatic.” In Loquentes Linguis: Linguistic and Oriental Studies in Honour of Fabrizio A. Pennacchietti, edited by P. G. Borbone, A. Mengozzi, and M. Tosco, 91–101. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz

[2] Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55

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