Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/labiʔ-
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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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly related to Proto-Afroasiatic *lib- (“heart”)[1] due to the idea of strength.
Noun
[edit]*labiʔ-[2]
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-Semitic: *labiʔ-
- Chadic:
- Cushitic:
References
[edit]- ^ So A. Murtonen (1989) “LBʾ”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
- ^ “Though all these forms can hardly be left without attention, the wide variety of hypothetic fossilized suffixes makes the common Afrasian reconstruction problematic.” Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) “*labVˀ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 197, Nr. 144