Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ḳas-

This Proto-Afroasiatic 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-Afroasiatic

Root

*ḳas-

  1. bone

Descendants

  • Proto-Berber: *e-ɣăss (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Chadic: *ḳas- (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Cushitic: *ḳas- (“bone, leg”)
    • Daasanach: ʼgás (“leg; foot”)
  • Proto-Omotic:
    • Proto-Dizoid:
      • Dizin: ኡሱ (usu)
      • Nayi: k'us
    • Proto-Aroid:
      • Dime: kʼuus
  • Egyptian: qs (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Semitic:
    • >? Arabic: قَصّ (qaṣṣ, “sternum”)
    • >? Ge'ez: qʷəyṣ (“shinbone”)

References

  • Bomhard, Allan R. (2014) Afrasian Comparative Phonology and Vocabulary‎[1], Charleston, South Carolina, →ISBN, page 190.
  • Olga Stolbova (2016) Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎[2], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, pages 238-240
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