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.

*ʔabay-

1. to desire, to want

• 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:
      • Canaanite:
        • Biblical Hebrew: אָבָה (ʔāḇā)
          • Hebrew: אָבָה (ava, “to be willing”)
  • 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”)

• 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