Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/lis-

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

Root

*lis-

1. tongue, language

Descendants

• Proto-Berber: *iləs
• Proto-Chadic:
  • West Chadic:
    • Hausa: harshè
    • Fyer: lés
    • Tambas: les
    • Bole: lisim
    • Ron: ʔalis
• Egyptian: ns
  • Coptic:
    • ⲗⲁⲥ (las) (Bohairic, Sahidic)
    • ⲗⲉⲥ (les) (Fayyumic, Akhmimic)
• Proto-Semitic: *lišān-

References

• Olga Stolbova (2016) Этимологический словарь чадских языков [Etymological dictionary of the Chadic languages]‎^[1], Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, page 253
• Roger Blench, Ron Comparative Wordlist