Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/waʕil-
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Proto-Semitic
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Afroasiatic *waʕil- (“mountain goat or antelope”).
Noun
[edit]*waʕil- m
Inflection
[edit]Declension of *waʕil-
Case | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | *waʕilum | *waʕilāna | plural stem + *-ūna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | *waʕilim | *waʕilayna | plural stem + *-īna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | *waʕilam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
possessive forms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1st person | *waʕilī / *waʕilVya | — | *waʕilVni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd person m | *waʕilVka | *waʕilVkumā / *waʕilVkumay | *waʕilVkum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd person f | *waʕilVki | *waʕilVkin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd person m | *waʕilVšu | *waʕilVšumā / *waʕilVšumay | *waʕilVšum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd person f | *waʕilVša | *waʕilVšin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: the endings -m and -na are dropped in the bound form, which may also undergo syncopation of an unstressed final vowel where possible.
Note: the ending -V before the possessive endings responds to case: *waʕiluya for nom. case, *waʕiliya for gen. case, *waʕilaya for acc. case, etc. Declension of 2sg m. possessive form (your/thy m.) *waʕil-
Declension of 2sg f. possessive form (your/thy f.) *waʕil-
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Descendants
[edit]- East Semitic:
- Eblaite: 𒉿𒉌𒈝 (wa-ʾa₅-lum, wa-i₃-lum)
- West Semitic:
References
[edit]- Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 312–314 No. 244
- Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen[1] (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 391