Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/šilyat-

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

Noun

*šilyat- f

1. secundine, fetal membrane

Inflection

Declension of *šilyat-

case	singular	dual	plural
nominative	*šilyatum	*šilyatāna	*šilyātum
accusative	*šilyatam	*šilyatayna	*šilyātim
genitive	*šilyatim
possessive forms
1st person	*šilyatī / *šilyatVya	—	*šilyatVni
2nd person m	*šilyatVka	*šilyatVkumā / *šilyatVkumay	*šilyatVkum(ū)
2nd person f	*šilyatVki		*šilyatVkin(ā)
3rd person m	*šilyatVšu	*šilyatVšumā / *šilyatVšumay	*šilyatVšum(ū)
3rd person f	*šilyatVša		*šilyatVšin(ā)

the endings -m and -na are dropped in the bound form, which may also undergo syncopation of an unstressed final vowel where possible. Note: the ending -V before the possessive endings responds to case: *šilyatuya for nom. case, *šilyatiya for gen. case, *šilyataya for acc. case, etc.

Descendants

• Akkadian: silītu, šelītu, šalītu
• West Semitic:
  • Arabic: سَلًى (salan), سَلًا (salan); whether سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus, usually meaning descendant”) belongs here is questionable
  • Northwest Semitic:
    • Aramaic:
      • Jewish Literary Aramaic: שִׁילְיְתָא (šilyəṯā), שִׁילְיָא (šilyā), also סִלְיְתָא (silyəṯā), סִילְתָא (siləṯā), reinterpreted with the meaning “embryo” שְׁלִילָא (šəlīlā, “embryo”), שְׁלּוּלָא (šəllūlā)
      • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁלְיְיתָא (šilyəṯā)
      • Classical Syriac: ܫܰܠܺܝܬܳܐ (šəlīṯā)
      • Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡅࡋࡉࡕࡀ (šulita)
      • → Arabic: سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus; any animal that is born with yet the fetal membrane on; descendant”); سَلِيلَة (salīla, “oblong strip of muscles, hide or hair; a long slice of material; female descendant; polyp”)
      • → Arabic: شَلِيل (šalīl, “padding under the rear of a camel's saddle; undergarment under a coat of mail; remaining strains of water in a wadi; medulla spinalis”)
      • → Old Armenian: շաղիղ (šałił), շաղաղ (šałał, “flesh; carcass”)
    • Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה (shilyá, šilyâ), note Mishnaic Hebrew: שָׁלִיל (shalíl, šālîl, “embryo”)
  • Ethiopian Semitic:
    • North Ethiopian Semitic:
      • Ge'ez: ሰይል (säyl)
      • Tigre: ስሌት (səlet)
      • Tigrinya: ሽል (šəl), ሽለት (šəlät)
    • South Ethiopian Semitic:
      • Amharic: ሽል (šəl)
      • Gurage:
        • Čäha, Äža, Ənor: ሺርር (šərər)
        • Gyäto: ሺር (šīr)
        • Mäsqan: ሽል (šəl)
        • Muher: ሽር (šər)

References

• Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000) “*ša/ily(-at)- ~ *sa/ily(-at)-, online only *šily-at-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 216–217 Nr. 246
• 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 220, there *sily-at-