Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/baḥr-

This Proto-West 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-West Semitic

Noun

*baḥr- m

1. sea

Usage notes

Replaced the original word *tihām- in West Semitic, but was in turn replaced in Northwest Semitic by *yamm-.

Descendants

• Central Semitic
  • Arabic: بَحْر (baḥr)
    • Gulf Arabic: بَحَر (bəḥər)
    • Maltese: baħar
    • Moroccan Arabic: بحر (bḥar)
    • → Azerbaijani: bəhr
    • → Bengali: বহর (bohor)
    • → Lishana Deni: בחר (baḥḥaṛ)
    • → Ottoman Turkish: بحر (baḥr)
      • Turkish: bahir
    • → Punjabi:

      Gurmukhi script: ਬਹਿਰ (bahir)

      Shahmukhi script: بہر (bhr)

    • → Swahili: bahari
      • → Malagasy: bahary
    • → Uzbek: bahr
    • → Zaghawa: bahar
  • Northwest Semitic:
    • Aramaic:
      • Classical Syriac: ܒܱ݁ܚܪܳܐ (baḥrāʾ)
  • Old South Arabian:
    • Old South Arabian: 𐩨𐩢𐩧 (bḥr)
• Ethiopian Semitic:
  • Amharic: ባህር (bahər)
  • Ge'ez: ባሕር (baḥr)
  • Tigrinya: ባሕሪ (baḥri)