Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ganb-
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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
*ganb- m
Inflection
Declension of *ganb-
| Case | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nominative | *ganbum | *ganbāna | plural stem + *-ūna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Genitive | *ganbim | *ganbayna | plural stem + *-īna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Accusative | *ganbam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| possessive forms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1st person | *ganbī / *ganbVya | — | *ganbVni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd person m | *ganbVka | *ganbVkumā / *ganbVkumay | *ganbVkum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2nd person f | *ganbVki | *ganbVkin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd person m | *ganbVšu | *ganbVšumā / *ganbVšumay | *ganbVšum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3rd person f | *ganbVša | *ganbVšin(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: *ganbuya for nom. case, *ganbiya for gen. case, *ganbaya for acc. case, etc. Declension of 2sg m. possessive form (your/thy m.) *ganb-
Declension of 2sg f. possessive form (your/thy f.) *ganb-
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Descendants
- East Semitic:
- Akkadian: gabbum (“a certain part of the body of an animal or beast; whole, entirety, all”)
- West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
- Ethiopian Semitic:
- Modern South Arabian:
References
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 176a
- Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 79–80 Nr. 85