Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/labiʔ-

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

Etymology

Possibly related to *lib- (“heart”)^[1] due to the idea of strength.

Noun

*labiʔ-^[2]

lion

Alternative reconstructions

*libaʔ-

Descendants

Proto-Semitic: *labiʔ- (see there for further descendants)
>? Egyptian: ꜣb (“leopard”)^[3]
- Demotic Egyptian: ꜣbj
Chadic:
- West Chadic:
  - Mwaghavul: rəḅəl
- Proto-Central Chadic: *lɨvari
  - Cibak: ˀalvàri
  - Gude: lìvàrà
  - Huba: lɛ̄vàrí
  - Hwana: lìfārì
  - Kofa: lìvɛ̀ri
  - Mafa: laval
  - Margi: ḥalivàr̃ì
- East Chadic:
  - Somrai: lārbə́
Cushitic:
- Central Cushitic:
  - Northern Agaw: *yəb-a ("leopard") ^[3]
    - Blin: yeba
- East Cushitic:
  - >? Saho: lubak
  - >? Afar: lubak
  - >? Baiso: luban
  - Somali: libaax

References

^ So A. Murtonen (1989), “LBʾ”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*labiʔ-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1636, page 355
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Takács, G. (2012). "Agaw lexicon and its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic background". Rocznik Orientalistyczny, page 100

[1] So A. Murtonen (1989), “LBʾ”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243

[2] Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*labiʔ-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1636, page 355

[Gabor-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Takács, G. (2012). "Agaw lexicon and its Cushitic and Afro-Asiatic background". Rocznik Orientalistyczny, page 100

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