Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/dab-
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This Proto-Afroasiatic 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-Afroasiatic
Noun
*dab-
Descendants
- Egyptian: db (“hippopotamus”)
- Proto-Semitic: *dubb- (“bear”) (see there for further descendants)
- →? Proto-Kuliak: *dọb (“rhinoceros”)
References
- Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 139.