Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/šilyat-

This Proto-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-Semitic

Noun

*šilyat- f

  1. secundine, fetal membrane

Inflection

Declension of *šilyat-
case singular dual plural
nominative *šilyatum *šilyatāna *šilyātum
accusative *šilyatam *šilyatayna *šilyātim
genitive *šilyatim
possessive forms
1st person *šilyatī / *šilyatVya — *šilyatVni
2nd person m *šilyatVka *šilyatVkumā / *šilyatVkumay *šilyatVkum(ū)
2nd person f *šilyatVki *šilyatVkin(ā)
3rd person m *šilyatVšu *šilyatVšumā / *šilyatVšumay *šilyatVšum(ū)
3rd person f *šilyatVša *šilyatVšin(ā)

the endings -m and -na are dropped in the bound form, which may also undergo syncopation of an unstressed final vowel where possible. Note: the ending -V before the possessive endings responds to case: *šilyatuya for nom. case, *šilyatiya for gen. case, *šilyataya for acc. case, etc.

Descendants

  • Akkadian: silītu, šelītu, šalītu
  • West Semitic:
    • Arabic: سَلًى (salan), سَلًا (salan); whether سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus, usually meaning descendant”) belongs here is questionable
    • Northwest Semitic:
      • Aramaic:
        • Jewish Literary Aramaic: שִׁילְיְתָא (šilyəṯā), שִׁילְיָא (šilyā), also סִלְיְתָא (silyəṯā), סִילְתָא (siləṯā), reinterpreted with the meaning “embryo” שְׁלִילָא (šəlīlā, “embryo”), שְׁלּוּלָא (šəllūlā)
        • Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: שִׁלְיְיתָא (šilyəṯā)
        • Classical Syriac: ܫܰܠܺܝܬܳܐ (šəlīṯā)
        • Classical Mandaic: ࡔࡅࡋࡉࡕࡀ (šulita)
        • → Arabic: سَلِيل (salīl, “male foetus; any animal that is born with yet the fetal membrane on; descendant”); سَلِيلَة (salīla, “oblong strip of muscles, hide or hair; a long slice of material; female descendant; polyp”)
        • → Arabic: شَلِيل (šalīl, “padding under the rear of a camel's saddle; undergarment under a coat of mail; remaining strains of water in a wadi; medulla spinalis”)
        • → Old Armenian: շաղիղ (šałił), շաղաղ (šałał, “flesh; carcass”)
      • Hebrew: שִׁלְיָה (shilyá, šilyâ), note Mishnaic Hebrew: שָׁלִיל (shalíl, šālîl, “embryo”)
    • Ethiopian Semitic:
      • North Ethiopian Semitic:
      • South Ethiopian Semitic:
        • Amharic: ሽል (šəl)
        • Gurage:
          • Čäha, Äža, Ənor: ሺርር (šərər)
          • Gyäto: ሺር (šīr)
          • Mäsqan: ሽል (šəl)
          • Muher: ሽር (šər)

References

  • Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2000) “*ša/ily(-at)- ~ *sa/ily(-at)-, online only *šily-at-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 216–217 Nr. 246
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 220, there *sily-at-
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