Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔahl-

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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

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Etymology

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Posited by Dolgopolsky as a cognate to a South Cushitic *ʾáŝa (hut, shelter) found in Iraqw islaangw (watch-hut in a field), to the consonant onset of which according to him there a cluster of a voiceless guttural fricative and voiced alveolar lateral approximant gets resolved. Possibly also related to Afar and Somali aqal (hut, house).

Noun

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*ʔahl- m

  1. tent camp

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • East Semitic:
    • Akkadian: 𒌷 (ālum)
    • Eblaite: 𒀀𒂍𒈤 (a-ʾà-al6, city)
  • West Semitic:
  • Egyptian: jhjr (tent)

References

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  • Dolgopolsky, Aron Borisovich (1987) “South Cushitic Lateral Consonants as Compared to Semitic and East Cushitic”, in Herrmann Jungraithmayr, Walter W. Müller, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth International Hamito-Semitic Congress, Marburg, 20–22 September, 1983, Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 206 of 195–214
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 31
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 31, Nr. 24