Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/yamin-

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

*yamin-[1]

  1. right (direction)

Descendants

  • >? Berber:
    • Northern Berber:
      • Central Atlas Tamazight:
        • Izayan dialect: ⵎⵏⵉ (mni, "straight"), ⵉⵎⵏⴰ (imna, "straight ahead")
  • Egyptian: jmn
  • Proto-Semitic: *yamīn- (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995), “*yamin-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 2578, page 537
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