Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ḳas-
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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
Alternative reconstructions
Root
*ḳas-
Descendants
- Proto-Berber: *e-ɣăss (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Chadic: *ḳas- (see there for further descendants)
- >? Proto-Cushitic: *mik- (see there for further descendants)
- Proto-Omotic:
- Egyptian: qs
- Proto-Semitic:
- >? Arabic: قَصّ (qaṣṣ, “sternum”)
References
- Bomhard, Allan R. (2014) Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary, Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 190.
- Olga Stolbova (2016) Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pages 238-240