Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/
bǔ
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
Noun
*bǔ
place
Descendants
Egyptian:
bw
Proto-Cushitic:
*bǔ
Beja:
-b
Proto-Semitic:
*bV-
Arabic:
بِـ
(
bi-
)
Hebrew:
בְּ־
(
bə-
)
Ge'ez:
በ-
(
bä-
)
References
Ehret, Christopher (1995),
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic
, →ISBN, page 80