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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/labiʔ-

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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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Afroasiatic *labiʔ-. Gamkrelidze & Ivanov argue on the possibility of borrowing into Proto-Indo-European *lewo-, though it remains debatable.

Noun

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*labiʔ- or *labuʔ- m

  1. lion

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Semitic:
    • Akkadian: 𒆷𒁍𒌝 (lābum)
    • Eblaite: 𒊊 (labʾum)
  • West Semitic:

References

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  • Golinets, Viktor (2016) “Amorite Animal Names: Cognates for the Semitic Etymological Dictionary”, in Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies (Babel und Bibel; 9)‎[1], Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, →DOI, →ISBN, page 70
  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen[2] (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 287 seqq.
  • Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) “*labVˀ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 194–197, Nr. 144
  • A. Murtonen (1989) “LBʾ”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243