Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *hVǯ(-ur)-

Meaning: to sleep

Semitic: *hVd_Vy/w- 'to be mad, talk without sense; produce incoherent sounds (in one's sleep)'

Central Chadic: *hinǯ- 'to sleep'

East Chadic: *Hawḍi (<*huǯVy-?) 'to sleep'

Dahalo (Sanye): had_d_ura 'sleep'

Number: 1219

Proto-Semitic: *hVd_Vy/w-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: to be mad, talk without sense; produce incoherent sounds (in one's sleep)

Akkadian: azû (h_azû, asû) 'to produce unnatural sounds' OB on [CAD a2 528], [AHw 92] (translated as 'seufzen, jappen')

Hebrew: hāzā 'to pant in its sleep (dog)' [KB 243].

Hapax in Is 56:10

Syrian Aramaic: hdy [PS 1:973] (not in Brock)

Arabic: hd_w 'battre la campagne, dire des absurdités' [BK 2 1408], hud_āʔ- 'délire' [ibid.]

Gurage: ENN ažažät 'one who acts mad' [LGur 123]; EZ̆A MUH MSQ SOD zazza, CHA ENN GYT zasa, END zassaʔa 'to act mad, act crazily, talk nonsense' [ibid.].

With haplology of the initial vowel <*hV-, and -z-> -s- in part of the examples due to dissimilation?

Mehri: hǝd_ (rare) 'to talk too much, to buzz (hornet)' [JM 153]

Jibbali: héd_é 'to be delirious, talk without sense, talk in one's sleep' [JJ 95].

Cf. hɛzzún 'mindlessly violent, psychopathic' [ibid. 100] (a variant root)

Notes: Meanings very diverse making a reconstructed semantics somewhat obscure. The GUR examples probably represent a reduplicated stem *zaza <*hazaza, with a haplology of the initial vowel <*hV- (retained, however, in ENN ažažät) and -z-> -s- in part of the examples to be explained (dissimilation?); note a somewhat strange coincidence of unexpected -s- in some of GUR and AKK asû.

[Fr 40]: *-hd_iy- 'ansare' (ARB, HBR, AKK); [AHw 92]: AKK, ARB, HBR; [KB 243]: HBR, SYR, ARB

Proto-CChadic: *hinǯ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'to sleep'

Gisiga: hinǯe CLR II 299

Proto-EChadic: *Hawḍi (<*huǯVy-?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'to sleep' lie d

Dangla: wèḍyē [Ebb]

Migama: ʔò:ḍyò [JMig]

Bidiya: ʔò:ḍy [JBid]

Mubi: heyit, hàyyàḍé [CLR]

Birgit: ʔò:ḍyí [CLR: 299]

Dahalo: had_d_ura

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'sleep'

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