Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/šilyat-
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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
Noun
*šilyat- f
Inflection
Declension of *šilyat-
| Case | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominative | *šilyatum | *šilyatāna | *šilyātum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | *šilyatim | *šilyatayna | *šilyātim | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accusative | *šilyatam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| possessive forms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st person | *šilyatī / *šilyatVya | — | *šilyatVni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd person m | *šilyatVka | *šilyatVkumā / *šilyatVkumay | *šilyatVkum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd person f | *šilyatVki | *šilyatVkin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd person m | *šilyatVšu | *šilyatVšumā / *šilyatVšumay | *šilyatVšum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd person f | *šilyatVša | *šilyatVšin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Note: the endings -m and -na are dropped in the bound form, which may also undergo syncopation of an unstressed final vowel where possible.
Note: the ending -V before the possessive endings responds to case: *šilyatuya for nom. case, *šilyatiya for gen. case, *šilyataya for acc. case, etc. Declension of 2sg m. possessive form (your/thy m.) *šilyat-
Declension of 2sg f. possessive form (your/thy f.) *šilyat-
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Descendants
- Akkadian: silītu, šelītu, šalītu
- West Semitic:
- Arabic: سَلًى (salan), سَلًا (salan); whether سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus, usually meaning descendant”) belongs here is questionable
- Northwest Semitic:
- Aramaic:
- Jewish Literary Aramaic: שִׁילְיְתָא (šilyəṯā), שִׁילְיָא (šilyā), also סִלְיְתָא (silyəṯā), סִילְתָא (siləṯā), reinterpreted with the meaning “embryo” שְׁלִילָא (šəlīlā, “embryo”), שְׁלּוּלָא (šəllūlā)
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁלְיְיתָא (šilyəṯā)
- Classical Syriac: ܫܰܠܺܝܬܳܐ (šəlīṯā)
- Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡅࡋࡉࡕࡀ (šulita)
- → Arabic: سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus; any animal that is born with yet the fetal membrane on; descendant”); سَلِيلَة (salīla, “oblong strip of muscles, hide or hair; a long slice of material; female descendant; polyp”)
- → Arabic: شَلِيل (šalīl, “padding under the rear of a camel's saddle; undergarment under a coat of mail; remaining strains of water in a wadi; medulla spinalis”)
- → Old Armenian: շաղիղ (šałił), շաղաղ (šałał, “flesh; carcass”)
- Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה (shilyá, šilyâ), note Mishnaic Hebrew: שָׁלִיל (shalíl, šālîl, “embryo”)
- Aramaic:
- Ethiopian Semitic:
References
- Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000) “*ša/ily(-at)- ~ *sa/ily(-at)-, online only *šily-at-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 216–217 Nr. 246
- Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 220, there *sily-at-