Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/mawut-

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

*mawut-[1]

  1. to die
  2. to kill

Descendants

  • Proto-Berber: *ămmət
  • Proto-Chadic: *mawut
  • Egyptian: mwt
  • Proto-Semitic: *mawut- (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*mawut-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1668, page 380
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.