This page is intended to be an appendix for Proto-Afro-Asiatic reconstructions.

See User:Jaspet/Afro-Asiatic protolanguage redlinks#Proto-Afro-Asiatic for a list of Proto-Afro-Asiatic reconstructions, mentioned in Wiktionary entries, which lack entries of their own (are redlinks).

• Bomhard, Allan R.; Kerns, John C. (1994) The Nostratic Macrofamily: A Study in Distant Linguistic Relationship →ISBN

• Bomhard, Allan R. (2014) Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎, Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN.

• Ehret, Christopher (1995) Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 126)‎, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN.

• Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik, Erste Abteilung). Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill.

This 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.

• *ḳVrVs- (“to freeze”)^[1]

Derived from the root *ḳ(ʷ)ar- (“to be cold”) plus probably *-as (causative suffix).^[2]

*ḳ(ʷ)aras-

1. (transitive) to freeze; (stative) to be freezing

This 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.

• *ḳar- (“to be cold”) and *ḳʷVrVr- (“cold”) separately^[1]
• *k’ʷar- (“to be cold; cold, coldness”)^[2]

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1. (stative) to be cold

• *ḳ(ʷ)aras- (“to freeze”)

• Proto-Chadic:
  • Proto-West Chadic: *ḳarar- (“cold (of water, weather)”)
    • Hausa: ƙararaa (“cold (of water, weather)”)
• Proto-Cushitic: *ḳor(r)- (“intense cold”)
• Proto-Semitic: *ḳar-ar- (“to be cold”)