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-

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