Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/yi

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

Pronoun

*yi (independent *ʔanāku)[1]

  1. me (first-person singular bound personal pronoun)

Alternative reconstructions

  • *ʔya/*ʔyi/*ʔyu[2]
  • *i

Descendants

  • Proto-Berber: *-yyi
    • Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉ (i)
    • Kabyle: iyi
    • Tuareg: -yi
  • Proto-Chadic: *(ʔ)ya, *ʔi, *yu
  • Proto-Cushitic: *yi, *i
    • >? North Cushitic: *-hoo-y-b-a
      • Beja: -heeba
    • Blin: yé
    • Somali: i
    • Dahalo: i
    • Burunge: ayi
  • Egyptian: .j
  • Proto-Semitic: *-ī, *-ya

References

  1. ^ 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 478
  2. ^ Blažek, V. (2019). "The Afroasiatic Personal Pronouns: A Textbook Example of a Suppletive Paradigm". In Kim, Ronald I. (ed.). Diachronic Perspectives of Suppletion. Baar-Verlag, pages 239–270. →ISBN
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