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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔabay-

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

Verb

*ʔabay-

  1. to desire, to want

Conjugation

Descendants

  • East Semitic:
    • ⇒ Akkadian: 𒁍𒀪𒄿𒌈 (bu-ʾ-i-tum /⁠buʾītu⁠/, “a thing wished, willed, desired”)
  • West Semitic:
    • Central Semitic:
      • Arabic: أَبَى (ʔabā, “to will; to demand; to have aversion for; to reject, to refuse”)
      • Northwest Semitic:
    • Ethiopian Semitic:
      • North Ethiopian Semitic:
        • Ge'ez: አበየ (ʾäbäyä, “to refuse, to be unwilling, to disobey”), አብየ (ʾäbyä)
        • Tigre: አባ (ʾäba, “to refuse, not to want; to hate”)
        • Tigrinya: አበየ (ʾäbäyä, “to refuse”)
      • South Ethiopian Semitic:
        • Amharic: ኣበየ (ʾabbäyä, “to disobey; to revolt”)
        • Gurage: ኤበ (ebbä, “to refuse; to disobey”)
    • → Egyptian: ꜣbj (“to desire, to want”)

References

  • Blažek, Václav (2011) Indo-European laryngeals in Afroasiatic perspective‎, Brno: Masaryk University, page 5
  • Blažek, Václav (2012) “Indo-European laryngeals in the light of Afroasiatic”, in The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics‎, →ISBN
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