Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/baḥr-

This Proto-West 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-West Semitic

Noun

*baḥr- m

sea

Usage notes

Replaced the original word *tihām- in West Semitic, but was in turn replaced in Northwest Semitic by *yamm-.

Descendants

Central Semitic
- Arabic: بَحْر (baḥr)
  - Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (bəḥər)
  - Maltese: baħar
  - Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)
  - → Azerbaijani: bəhr
  - → Bengali: বহর (bohor)
  - → Lishana Deni: בחר (baḥḥaṛ)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: بحر (baḥr)
    - Turkish: bahir
  - → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਿਰ (bahir)
    Shahmukhi script: بحر (bḥr)
  - → Swahili: bahari
    - → Malagasy: bahary
  - → Uzbek: bahr
  - → Zaghawa: bahar
- Northwest Semitic:
  - Aramaic:
    - Classical Syriac: ܒܱ݁ܚܪܳܐ (baḥrāʾ)
- Old South Arabian:
  - Old South Arabian: 𐩨𐩢𐩧 (bḥr)
Ethiopian Semitic:
- Amharic: ባህር (bahər)
- Ge'ez: ባሕር (baḥr)
- Tigrinya: ባሕሪ (baḥri)