Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ḳas-

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

Alternative reconstructions

• *ḳos

Root

*ḳas-

1. bone

Descendants

• Proto-Berber: *e-ɣăss (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Chadic: *ḳas- (see there for further descendants)
• >? Proto-Cushitic: *mik- (see there for further descendants)
• Proto-Omotic:
  • Proto-Dizoid:
    • Dizin: ኡሱ (usu)
  • Proto-Aroid:
    • Dime: kʼuus
• Egyptian: qs
  • Coptic: ⲕⲁⲥ (kas), ⲕⲉⲥ (kes), ⲕⲉⲉⲥ (kees)
• Proto-Semitic:
  • >? Arabic: قَصّ (qaṣṣ, “sternum”)

References

• Bomhard, Allan R. (2014) Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎^[1], Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 190.
• Olga Stolbova (2016) Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎^[2], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pages 238-240