Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/tar-

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

*tar-[1][2]

  1. to spread, expand, extend, stretch out

Descendants

  • Chadic:
  • Egyptian: tr (“span of time”), jtrw (“river”) (see there for further descendants)

See also

References

  1. ^ Bomhard, Allan R. (2014), Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎[1], Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 119.
  2. ^ 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 142
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