Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lab-

Meaning: side of body

Semitic: *labb(-at)- 'body from neck to rump; back and flank'

Beḍauye (Beja): léew (<*lVb-) 'side'

Saho-Afar: *lab- 'side of the body' ~ (?) *lab-k- 'shoulder'

High East Cushitic: *laṗ- 'side' (?)

Notes: Cf. *li/ubb- 'heart' (217) probably related. Cf. Bla Review 503.

Number: 2614

Proto-Semitic: *labb(-at)-

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Meaning: neck with chest; back and flank

Akkadian: labânu (labiānu, libânu) 'tendon of the neck; neck' OB on [CAD l 12] [AHw 524]

Arabic: lubb-at- 'le haut de la poitrine qui touche à la clavicule' [BK 2 955] (-u- < *-a- before -bb?), labab- 'le haut de la poitrine ou de poitrail d'où descend un collier ou autre parure du cou' [ibid.].

Cf. also labān- 'poitrine, surtout la partie entre les mamelles, poitrail (de tout animal à sabot)' [ibid. 962]

Tigre: läbbät 'place of the fillet steak on the back of animals; midst, side' [LH 40]

East Ethiopic: WOL labä 'waist' [LGur 373], ZWY läbät 'podex, anus, buttocks' [LGur I 1214] (cf. otherwise [LGur 374])

Gurage: MUH MSQ GOG SOD laba, CHA EZ̆A naba, ENN GYE nab_a 'waist' [ibid. 373].

Leslau considers it a loan from E. CUSH (KAMB HAD leṗa), which is less likely in view of the comparative SEM data. Cf. MUH läbät 'meat of tail of sheep' [LGur I 900] (cf. discussion in [LGur 374])

Mehri: mǝlább 'side' [JM 250].

A derived pattern. Cf. ǝwtǝbūb 'to wrap os. in a waist-cloth' [ibid.] placed under the same root lbb (i.e. <*ǝltǝbūb with the infixed -t-?)

Jibbali: lɛb 'side' [JJ 159]

Notes: Meaning somewhat diffuse (originally may denote trunk as a whole). Anyway, semantically and phonetically (-a- vis. -i-) rather to be separated from *libb- 'heart' (No. ).

The underlying form in AKK is *laby-ān-; note the -ān suffix in AKK and one of the ARB examples

Bedauye: léew (<*lVb-?)

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Meaning: 'side'

Proto-Saho-Afar: *lab- ~ (?) *lab-k-

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Meaning: 'side of the body'

Afar (Danakil): lab-

Notes: Park-Hay 153. Cf. Afar labka 'scapula, back of shoulder' P-H 153, Saho labk-ā́ 'Schulter, Achsel' Rein Saho 244

Proto-High East Cushitic: *laṗ-

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Meaning: 'side'

Burji (Bambala, Dashe): laṗ-ée Sass 133

Notes: -ṗ- instead of *-b- is not clear.

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