Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/labiʔ-

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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

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Etymology

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

Noun

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*labiʔ-[2]

  1. lion

Descendants

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References

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  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