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

secundine, fetal membrane

Inflection

Declension of *šilyat-

Case

Singular

Dual

Plural

Nominative

*šilyatum

*šilyatāna

*šilyātum

Genitive

*šilyatim

*šilyatayna

*šilyātim

Accusative

*šilyatam

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)

Note: 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.

Declension of 2sg m. possessive form (your/thy m.) *šilyat-

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*šilyatuka	*šilyatāka	*šilyātuka
Genitive	*šilyatika	*šilyatayka	*šilyātika
Accusative	*šilyataka	*šilyatayka	*šilyātika

Declension of 2sg f. possessive form (your/thy f.) *šilyat-

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	*šilyatuki	*šilyatāki	*šilyātuki
Genitive	*šilyatiki	*šilyatayki	*šilyātiki
Accusative	*šilyataki	*šilyatayki	*šilyātiki

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-