Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔabay-

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

Verb

*ʔabay-

to desire, to want

Conjugation

Conjugation of *ʔabay- (paʕala)

verbal noun					*ʔibāʔ-
active participle					*ʔābiy-
passive participle					ʔabīy-, ʔabūy-
		singular				dual			plural
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
perfect	m	*ʔabayku	*ʔabayka	*ʔabaya		*ʔabaykayā	*ʔabaykā	*ʔabayā	*ʔabayna	*ʔabaykanu	*ʔabayū
perfect	f	*ʔabayku	*ʔabayki	*ʔabayat		*ʔabaykayā	*ʔabaykā	*ʔabayatā	*ʔabayna	*ʔabaykina	*ʔabayā
imperfect	m	*ʔābī	*taʔbī	*yiʔbī			*taʔbiyā	*yaʔbiyā	*niʔbī	*taʔbī	*yiʔbiyū
imperfect	f	*ʔābī	*taʔbī	*taʔbī			*taʔbiyā	*taʔbiyā	*niʔbī	*taʔbiyā	*yiʔbiyā
imperative	m		*ʔabī				*ʔabiyā			*ʔabiyū
imperative	f		*ʔabī				*ʔabiyā			*ʔabiyā

Descendants

East Semitic:
- ⇒ Akkadian: 𒁍𒀪𒄿𒌈 (bu-ʾ-i-tum /⁠buʾītu⁠/, “a thing wished, willed, desired”)
West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
  - Arabic: أَبَى (ʔabā, “to will; to demand; to have aversion for; to reject, to refuse”)
  - Northwest Semitic:
    - Canaanite:
      - Biblical Hebrew: אָבָה (ʔāḇā)
        Hebrew: אָבָה (ava, “to be willing”)
- Ethiopian Semitic:
  - North Ethiopian Semitic:
    - Ge'ez: አበየ (ʾäbäyä, “to refuse, to be unwilling, to disobey”), አብየ (ʾäbyä)
    - Tigre: አባ (ʾäba, “to refuse, not to want; to hate”)
    - Tigrinya: አበየ (ʾäbäyä, “to refuse”)
  - South Ethiopian Semitic:
    - Amharic: ኣበየ (ʾabbäyä, “to disobey; to revolt”)
    - Gurage: ኤበ (ebbä, “to refuse; to disobey”)
- → Egyptian: ꜣbj (“to desire, to want”)

References

Blažek, Václav (2011) Indo-European laryngeals in Afroasiatic perspective‎^[1], Brno: Masaryk University, page 5
Blažek, Václav (2012) “Indo-European laryngeals in the light of Afroasiatic”, in The Sound of Indo-European: Phonetics, Phonemics and Morphophonemics‎^[2], →ISBN