Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ji

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

Pronoun

*ji[1]

  1. one, someone, somebody (indefinite pronoun)

Alternative reconstructions

  • *dzi

Descendants

  • Proto-Chadic: *zi
  • Egyptian: z
  • Proto-Semitic: *ḏV- (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ 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 260
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