Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ṯayan-

This Proto-Semitic 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-Semitic

Verb

*ṯayan-

to urinate

Inflection

Conjugation of *ṯayan- (paʕala)

verbal noun					*ṯayn-
active participle					*ṯāyin-
passive participle					ṯayīn-, ṯayūn-
		singular				dual			plural
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
perfect	m	*ṯayanku	*ṯayanka	*ṯayana		*ṯayankayā	*ṯayankā	*ṯayanā	*ṯayanna	*ṯayankanu	*ṯayanū
perfect	f	*ṯayanku	*ṯayanki	*ṯayanat		*ṯayankayā	*ṯayankā	*ṯayanatā	*ṯayanna	*ṯayankina	*ṯayanā
imperfect	m	*ʔaṯyan	*taṯyan	*yiṯyan			*taṯyanā	*yaṯyanā	*niṯyan	*taṯyanū	*yiṯyanū
imperfect	f	*ʔaṯyan	*taṯyanī	*taṯyan			*taṯyanā	*taṯyanā	*niṯyan	*taṯyanā	*yiṯyanā
imperative	m		*ṯayan				*ṯayanā			*ṯayanū
imperative	f		*ṯayanī				*ṯayanā			*ṯayanā

Descendants

East Semitic:
- Akkadian: šānu, šiānu
  - ⇒ Akkadian: šatānu
West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
  - Northwest Semitic:
    - Aramaic:
      - Classical Syriac: ܬܢ (tān)
    - Canaanite:
      - ⇒ Hebrew: שָׁתַן (šāṯan)
        ⇒ Hebrew: שֶׁתֶן (šéṯen, “urine”)
    - ⇒ Ugaritic: 𐎘𐎚𐎐* (ṯtn*) (attested once in the 3rd person m present 𐎊𐎘𐎚𐎐 (yṯtn))
- Ethiopian Semitic:
  - Amharic: ሸነ (šännä), ሸና (šänna)
  - Ge'ez: ሤነ (śenä)
  - Tigre: ሼነ (šenä)
  - Tigrinya: ሸነ (šänä), ሼነ (šenä)

References

Kogan, Leonid (2011), “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 227, state that the nouns in the individual Semitic languages we list as from *ṯayn- f are deverbal from *ṯayan- (“to urinate”)
Leslau, Wolf (1987), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006, page 540