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Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/labiʔ-

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

Etymology

Possibly related to Proto-Afroasiatic *lib- (“heart”)[1] due to the idea of strength.

Noun

*labiʔ-[2]

  1. lion

Descendants
  • Proto-Semitic: *labiʔ-
    • East Semitic:
      • Akkadian: 𒆷𒁍𒌝 (lābum)
      • Eblaite: 𒊊 (labʾum)
    • West Semitic:
      • Central Semitic:
        • Arabic: لَبُؤَة‎ (labuʔa, “lioness”)
        • Northwest Semitic:
          • Amorite: 𒆷𒁀 (la-ba), 𒆷𒁀𒀀 (la-ba-a /⁠*labaʾa⁠/, given name, literally “lioness”)
          • Aramaic:
            • Imperial Aramaic: 𐡋𐡁𐡀‎ (lbʾ)
          • Canaanite:
          • Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎜 (lbủ /⁠labiʾu⁠/)
      • Old South Arabian:
        • Sabaean: 𐩡𐩨𐩱‎ (lbʾ)
  • Chadic:
    • Cibak: ˀalvàri
    • Gude: lìvàrà
    • Huba: lɛ̄vàrí
    • Hwana: lìfārì
    • Kofa: lìvɛ̀ri
    • Mafa: laval
    • Margi: ḥalivàr̃ì
    • Mwaghavul: rəḅəl
    • Somrai: lārbə́
  • Cushitic:
    • Afar: lubak
    • Baiso: luban
    • Jiiddu: libááhu
    • >? Oromo: leenci
    • Saho: lubak
    • Somali: libaax

References
  1. So A. Murtonen (1989), “LBʾ”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
  2. “Though all these forms can hardly be left without attention, the wide variety of hypothetic fossilized suffixes makes the common Afrasian reconstruction problematic.” Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2005), “*labVˀ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 197, Nr. 144
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