Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ma

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

*ma (variant *mi)

1. what (interrogative determiner)

Descendants

• Chadic:
  • Hausa: me
• Cushitic:
  • Awngi: [script needed] (-mà)
  • Afar: maca
  • Somali: maxay
  • Oromo: maal
• Semitic:
  • Hebrew: מַה (ma)

References

• Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, →ISBN