Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/laban-

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

Adjective

*laban-

1. white

Descendants

• Central Semitic:
  • Arabic: لَبَن (laban, “milk”)
    • Egyptian Arabic: لبن (laban)
    • Gulf Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
    • Hijazi Arabic: لبن (laban)
    • Iraqi Arabic: لِبَن (liban)
    • Moroccan Arabic: لبن (lban)
    • South Levantine Arabic: لبن (laban)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: لبن (leben)
      • Turkish: leben
  • Northwest Semitic:
    • Canaanite:
      • Hebrew: לָבָן (laván, lāḇān)
      • Phoenician: 𐤋𐤁𐤍 (lbn)
        • Punic: 𐤋𐤁𐤍 (lbn /⁠laḇan⁠/)
    • Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎐 (lbn /⁠labanu⁠/)

References

• Kogan, Leonid (2015) Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
• Huehnergard, John (2019) “Proto-Semitic”, in Huehnergard, John and Na'ama Pat-El, editors, The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN