Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/mataḳ-
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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
Etymology
Orel and Stolbova suggest Proto-Afroasiatic *mVtaḳ- (“be sweet”) as ancestor, with Mafa mtake (“sweet”) as only non-Semitic cognate.[1]
Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *médʰu (“honey”).[2]
Verb
*mataḳ-
Conjugation
Conjugation of Proto-Semitic/mataḳ- (paʕala)
| verbal noun | *matḳ- | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| active participle | *mātiḳ- | ||||||||||||
| passive participle | *matīḳ-, *matūḳ- | ||||||||||||
| singular | dual | plural | |||||||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||||
| perfect | m | *mataḳku | *mataḳka | *mataḳa | *mataḳkayā | *mataḳkā | *mataḳā | *mataḳna | *mataḳkanu | *mataḳū | |||
| f | *mataḳki | *mataḳat | *mataḳatā | *mataḳkina | *mataḳā | ||||||||
| imperfect | m | *ʔamtiḳ | *tamtiḳ | *yimtiḳ | *tamtiḳā | *yamtiḳā | *nimtiḳ | *tamtiḳū | *yimtiḳū | ||||
| f | *tamtiḳī | *tamtiḳ | *tamtiḳā | *tamtiḳā | *yimtiḳā | ||||||||
| imperative | m | *matiḳ | *matiḳā | *matiḳū | |||||||||
| f | *matiḳī | *matiḳā | |||||||||||
Related terms
- *matḳ- (“sweetness; sweet (adj.)”)
Descendants
- East Semitic:
- Akkadian: 𒈠𒋫𒄣 (matāqum)
- West Semitic:
References
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) “*mVtaḳ-”, in Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, § 1818
- ^ Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, pages 82-83: “Proto-Semitic *mVtk- ‘sweet’” ... "The correspondences between Indo-European and Semitic are generally explained as flowing from Semitic into Indo-European at the level of the Indo-European proto-language itself."