Afroasiatic etymology :

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʔar-

Meaning: elephant/hippopotamus

Semitic: *ʔVrw-at- 'female elephant'

Central Chadic: *ʔarV- 'hippopotamus'

Saho-Afar: ̃̃

Low East Cushitic: *ʔV̄r- 'male elephant'

High East Cushitic: (?) *rV̄ʔ- 'hippopotamus'

South Cushitic: (?) *ʔar- 'large herbivore'

Dahalo (Sanye): *ʔār-Vl- 'large antilope (eland)'

Omotic: *ʔayir(-in)- 'hippopotamus'

Semitic etymology :

Number: 2670

Proto-Semitic: *ʔVrw-at- 'female elephant'

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Tigre: ʔǝrwät 'female elephant' [LH 359]

Central Chadic etymology :

Proto-CChadic: *ʔarV-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'hippopotamus'

Kusseri: arẹ 'hippopotamus' Bla. Eleph., 204 (apud Sölken 1967, 242); comp. with other Ch. forms in n-; see, on the other hand, arwi 'elephant' Porkh., 35, where -w- may, or may not, reflect *-f- and belong to Kotoko *ʔarf- (see 130)

Low East Cushitic etymology :

Proto-Low East Cushitic: *ʔarV-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'male elephant'

Boni: oor 'male elephant' Sass. PEC, 46 (cf. also 45) <*awr- 'large male animal'

High East Cushitic etymology :

Proto-High East Cushitic: *rV̄ʔ- (?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'hippopotamus'

Sidamo: rooʔe 'hippopotamus' Huds. HEC, 80

Notes: Quoted by Hudson together with Geleba rooṗe, Oromo roobii, Burji roobe id. (Huds. HEC, 80); Blazek adds Sidamo robē, robicco, Darasa rōṗe reconstructing *robH- 'hippopotamus' (Bla. Eleph., 203). However, *-b- in Sidamo yields -b- (see robē, robicco above), sometimes -w- (cf. Huds. HEC, 92 'light'; 94 'louse'; 156 'tongue'; 76 'greedy person'), but not -ʔ-; consequently, Sidamo rooʔe, in spite of its phonetic affinity with PHC *rooṗe (Hudson) or *robH- (Blazek) may be alternatively reconstructed as *rooʔ- and compared to the present Afras. root as a metathetic form

South Cushitic etymology :

Proto-South Cushitic: *ʔar- (?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'large herbivore'

Ma'a (Mbugu): áro id. Ehr. HRSC, 333 (comp. to Oromo arba 'elephant')

Dahalo etymology :

Dahalo: ʔáároole

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'eland'

Notes: Ehr. HRSC, 287 (body length up to 3.5 m, weight up to 900 kg.)

Omotic etymology :

Proto-Omotic: *ʔayir(-in)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'hippopotamus'

Ari: Galila ayɛrin 'hippopotamus' Flem. Aroid. 152

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