This page is intended as an index of current redlinks on Wiktionary, i.e. wikilinks to nonexistent pages, for reconstructed items of protolanguages within the Afro-Asiatic phylum. (As Egyptian is not a protolanguage, the Egyptian branch is not included; see Category:Egyptian redlinks.)

Note on notation: A question mark preceding a reconstruction denotes doubt as to the existence of the protoform listed; a question mark directly after a reconstruction denotes doubt about the accuracy of the reconstruction (even within the context of whichever theory it is based on); a question mark within a protoform's definition denotes doubt or uncertainty in the semantic reconstruction. A parenthetical question mark is less significant than a non-parenthetical one. A question mark next to a subfamily name simply denotes that the group has yet to be established with any amount of certainty.

The subdivisions of Afro-Asiatic below are based primarily on a combination of models put forth by Fleming, Ehret and (in the context of lexicostatistics) Starostin; the uncertainty about the unity of Cushitic is based on Orel & Stolbova (1995). It should be noted that, regardless of the particular theory of Afro-Asiatic branches, many “Proto-Afro-Asiatic” reconstructions are in fact limited to a particular subgroup. (The vast majority have not been found in Omotic at all, and so, according to the model used hereafter, might be common “Erythraean” or even later innovations.)

• *-(a)b- (noun class suffix for harmful animals)
• *-(a)t- (a noun class suffix of uncertain function ?)
• *ʾan(-) (first-person pronoun (plural exclusive?))
• *ʾanāku (“I”)
• *ʾis- (“fire”)
• *ʔ/yakʷ- (“to set fire”)
• *ʿadas- (“lentil, bean; seed, seedling, sprout”)
• *ʿal-, *ʿVl(ay)- (“to be high, tall; to rise, climb, grow; mountain”)
• *ʿayVn- (“eye”)
• *bariq- (“to flash, gleam; lightning”)
• *c̣ipar- (“small bird, guinea fowl”)
• *dab- (“a type of large animal”)
• *dawul- (“door ~ fence”)
• *dp-, *dpr- (“heat; fire”)
• *ðuṗṗ (“fly”)
• ? *eḷu (“elephant”)
• *ḥVsaw/y- (“to drink”)
• *-H̥/i̥ (feminine suffix)
• (?) *ħVmār- (“donkey”)
• (?) *ḫab- (“pig, hippopotamus (?)”)
• *ḫVwVy- (“stomach”)
• *-i (genitive-possessive case ending)
• *-ka, *-ku, *-ki (second-person possessive suffix)
• *kul- (“dog”)
• *ḳapay- (“occiput, back of the head”)
• *ḳayč̣- (“to be hot; summer”)
• *kab- (“to burn, roast”)
• *ḳrb-; *ḳlb- (“to bend, turn (over)”)
• *laɣ- (?) (“to speak”)
• *laḥam- (“food”)
• *leb- (“elephant”)
• *lib (“heart”)
• *lis (“tongue”)
• *lwn- (“color; variety (?)”)
• *maʾ- (“water”)
• *-maaw- (“to die”)
• *mary- (“wildcat (leopard ~ lion)”), *m-l (“wildcat?”)
• *mawVt- (“to die ~ kill”)
• *m-r (“wildcat; river, channel; heap of stones?”)
• *mVs- (“knife, spear; iron”)
• *nVs- (“man”)
• *nx̣m (“good, pleasant, sweet”)
• *paʾir- (“mouse, rat”)
• *raʿ- (“sun, god”)
• *rim- (“to be raised, high, long”)
• *(ʔi-)sim- (“name”)
• *sin- (“tooth”)
• *sṗɣ (“seven”)
• *suʔw- (“a kind of insect”)
• *sulx̣am (“locust”)
• *śapat (“lips”)
• *šuː (third-person singular pronoun)
• ? *tiʾ(i)n- (“a kind of fruit”)
• *ṭVwl- (“long, far”)
• *-u (nominative case marker)
• *wrḳ- (“green”)
• *wsɣ (“to be big, wide; to grow, swell”)
• *xanam (“goat (?)”)
• *x̣al (“top, surface, face”)
• *yamin- (“right (hand, side)”)
• *ʒ/ǯa- (“person, man (?)”)
• *ǯiʔib- (“beast of prey”) = *ǯiʾb- (“wolf, jackal”)

• *asə (“foot, leg”)
• *ban (“water”)
• *bəna (“to wash oneself, bathe”)
• *gʷam- (“ten”) (same root as *gʷm/*gʷ-m (“ten”))
• *sa (“to drink”)
• *(-)sə (“to come”)
• *ti (“to drink”)
• *təra (“star”)
• *wa (“who”)
• *wəɗi (“mother ~ elder female relative”)
• *yɗ- (“(a kind of) bird”)

• *bana (“to wash”)
• *ɗakʷa (“white”)
• *ⁿdzah (“to sit, stay”)
• *ḫway- (“stomach, belly, intestines”)
• *kɨrɨp (“fish”)
• *nɨɣ (“to see”)
• *sɨn (“to know”)
• *v- (“to give”)
• *zəmə (“to drink”)
• *zɨwɨɗʸ (“rope”)

• *bara (“to wash”)
• *maɗakʷɨ (“white”)

• *ənakkʷ (“I”)
• *eḷu (“elephant”)
• *zaġāya (“spear”)

• *ʾarān- ~ *ʾirān- (“box, chest, ark; casket, coffin, sarcophagus”)
• *ʾarnab- (“hare”)
• *ʾš (root of *ʾiš- (“man, male, husband; person, someone”))
• *ʿakbar- (“mouse”)
• *ʿaqib- (“hoof, heel, sole”)
• *ʿaḳrab- / *ʿaqrab- (“scorpion”)
• *ʿal- (“on, over”)
• *ʿall-, *ʿaly- (“to climb, grow, swell; to be high, exalted; height, elevation; mountain”)
• *ʿarq- (“stem; vein, nerve, tendon”)
• *ʿarqūb- (“hamstring (?)”)
• *ʿaśr- (“ten”)
• *ʿbd (“to work, serve”)
• *ʿḍd (“to prune, pull out”) (> “to weed; weed(s)”; “tuft of wool” (possibly conflated with *dūd- (“wild sheep”) ?))
• *ʿmd (“shaft, pole, pillar, column”)
• *ʿrp (“cloud, fog”)
• *ʿrś (“seat, couch, bed, cradle”)
• *ʿṯn (“smoke; to fume, smell”)
• *awayat- (“symbol, sign, omen”)
• *bark- (variant of *birk- (“knee”))
• *b-n (root of *bin- (“son”))
• *dṯʾ, *diθʾ- (“to sprout, grow green; vegetation, green grass, herb”)
• *ḍlʿ (“to curve, bend (intr.); rib(s); side”)
• *ḍmr (“wool, woolen fabric”)
• *ḍrb (“sheep, ram ?”)
• *ḍrš (“molar tooth”)
• *ḏḥl (“to fear; to revere (?)”)
• *ḏrḥ (“(sun)light; sunrise, dawn; east”)
• *ġrb (“to go away, leave, depart; to wane; to set (of the sun); evening”)
• *hīʾa (“she”)
• *hūʾa (“he”)
• *ḥḍn (“breast, bosom; (?) to nurse”)
• *ḥmr (root of *ḥimār- (“donkey”))
• *ḥmḍ (“to ferment; (n.) ferment, leaven, yeast”)
• *ḥrb (“to be enraged, angry; to defeat, slaughter, avenge, war on; war; blade, dagger, sword”)
• *ḫmr (“to ferment (to produce alcohol); wine”)
• *kaʾs- (“container, bowl, cup”)
• *kilʾ- (“both”)
• *marʾ- (“boy, son, man”)
• *māy- (alternate reconstruction of *maʾ- (“water”))
• *mrḍ (“to be(come) sick, ill; illness”)
• (?) *m-w-r (“high place, peak, tower”)
• *mdd (“to stretch, spread, measure”)
• *mi/alḥ (“salt; salt water, brine, ocean water”) (*milḥ, *malḥ)
• *nśʾ (“to weigh; balance, scale”)
• *pan- (“face”)
• *paras- (“to divide, cut up, cut off”)
• *pay- (“mouth”)
• *qadqad (“head ~ top of the head; skull”)
• *qyẓ (“to be hot; heat; summer”)
• (?) *raml- (“sand (for building?)”)
• *rʿy (“to accompany, guard; to herd, guard livestock; to graze; pasture; herdsman; companion; to associate with, join)”)
• *rūḥ- (“to blow, breathe; breath, breeze; spirit”)
• *rukba- (metathetic variant of *birk- (“knee”))
• *rwm ~ *rym (“to be high; peak, heap, hill; to be abundant”)
• *salim (“peace; Shalim (Canaanite goddess of twilight) ?”)
• *ṣ́abb- (“spiny-tailed lizard (?)”)
• *šabʿ- (“seven”)
• *šīʾa (third-person singular pronoun)
• *ṣ-ɣ-r (“to be small, young”)
• *ṣdġ (“temple (anatomy), jaw (?)”)
• *-t (feminine suffix)
• *ṯdʾ (“breast, pap, teat”)
• *ṯql (“to weigh, measure by weight; weight, burden; weight on a scale; scale, balance”)
• *ṯwn (“to urinate; urine (?)”)
• *θamāniy- (“eight”)
• *θiqd- (“almond”)
• *θ(V)ny- (variant of *θnā- (“two”))
• *uru (?) (“house, town”)
• *wḏʿ (“juice, fluid; sweat”)
• *yrṯ (“fruit juice pre-fermentation (?)”)

Proto–South Semitic

Proto–Central Semitic

Proto–Northwest Semitic