Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/naḫar-

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.

*naḫar-

1. to snort
2. to gnaw, to perforate

• East Semitic:
  • Akkadian: 𒍝𒊏𒄷 (naḫārum, “to snore, to snort”)
• West Semitic
  • Central Semitic:
    • Arabic: نَخَرَ (naḵara)
      • Maltese: naħar (“to snore”)
    • Northwest Semitic:
      • Aramaic: נְחַר (nəḥar, “to snort, to sneeze; to perforate, to stab”)
        • Classical Syriac: ܢܚܰܪ (nəḥar, “to snort, to sneeze”)
      • Canaanite:
        • Hebrew: נָחַר (nakhár, nāḥar, “to snort”)
      • ⇒ Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎐𐎃𐎗 (ảnḫr, “dolphin”)
  • Ethiopian Semitic:
    • Ge'ez: ንኅረ (nəḫrä, “to snort, to snore”)
  • Modern South Arabian:
    • Mehri: nəxār (“to snort”)
    • Shehri: nxr (“to snort”)
    • Soqotri: nḥr (“to groan”)

• “nḥr”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dillmann, August (1865) Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 663
• Leslau, Wolf (1938) Lexique Soqotri (sudarabique moderne) avec comparaisons et explications étymologiques (in French), Wiesbaden: Libraire C. Klincksieck, page 265
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 396