Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/tar-

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

Root

*tar-

1. to gather, collect, increase, add up, pile up.
2. collections, heaps of.
3. mix.

Derived terms

• *dăr- ("to enlarge") (possibly)
• *tVl- ("hill") (possibly)
• *-tVr- ("star") (possibly)
  • Proto-Semitic: *ʕaṯ-tar- (star goddess)
    • Proto-Semitic: *ʕaṯtar-
  • Proto-Chadic: *təra
    • Hausa: tàurārṑ

Descendants

• Proto-Chadic: *tar-
  • Proto-West Chadic: *tar-
    • Hausa: tārā̀
    • Karekare: taru
• Proto-Cushitic: *tar-
  • Proto-South Cushitic: *tar-
    • Iraqw: tlaahh ("to increase")

References

• Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, →ISBN, page 142
• Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 498.