Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/lis-

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

*lis-[1]

  1. tongue

Alternative reconstructions

  • *les-[2]
  • *-lis'- (verb, “to lick”)[3]

Descendants

  • Proto-Berber: *iləs (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Chadic: *lis-um-[4]
  • Egyptian: ns (see there for further descendants)
  • Omotic:
    • Dime: les'i (“to lick”)
    • → Arbore: lec
  • Proto-Semitic: *lišān- (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Loprieno, Antonio (1995), Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 31
  2. ^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*les-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1666, page 361
  3. ^ 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 406
  4. ^ Olga Stolbova (2016), Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎[1], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 253
  5. ^ Roger Blench, Ron Comparative Wordlist
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