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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:
            • Hebrew: לָבִיא (laví, lāḇîʾ)
            • → Egyptian: rwꜣbw
            • →? Egyptian: rbw (“Libu”)
          • 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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