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Phoenician
Etymology 1
Akin to Hebrew אִי (ʔī).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
𐤀𐤉 (ʾy /ʾiy/)[1]
- island
Descendants
Etymology 2
Cognate to Ge'ez ኢ (ʾi, negates verbs), Biblical Hebrew אִי (ʔī, negates verbs), Akkadian 𒀀 (A /ay/, vetitive before /y/), 𒂊 (E /ē/, vetitive in all other contexts), from Proto-Semitic *ʔay- (“not”), unless independent developments from interrogative *ʔayy-.[2]
Adverb
𐤀𐤉 (ʾy)[3]
- negates finitive verbs
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2001) A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 45
- ^ Sjörs, Ambjörn (2018 January 18) Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 91), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 15
- ^ Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2001) A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 277–278
Punic
Etymology
From Phoenician 𐤀𐤉 (ʾy).
Pronunciation
Noun
𐤀𐤉 (ʾy)[1]
- island
Descendants
References
- ^ Krahmalkov, Charles R. (2001) A Phoenician-Punic Grammar, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 45