Afroasiatic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *sar-

Meaning: (lower) back; tail; back, below

Semitic: *š/sar- 'vertebral column, backbone; back; behind, back, after'

Egyptian: sꜣ (pyr) 'back', wsr-t (pyr) 'neck'

Western Chadic: *sar- 'middle of back'

Central Chadic: *sar- 'waist'

Beḍauye (Beja): sára 'back'

Central Cushitic (Agaw): *sVr- 'back' 1, lower part 2

Saho-Afar: *sarr- 'tail; backside' 1, 'back, rear' 2

High East Cushitic: *sar- 'tail'

South Cushitic: *sir- 'buttocks'

Dahalo (Sanye): sáre 'lower back, meat above buttock'

Mogogodo (Yaaku): sɛ̀rɛy 'below, down'

Notes: Cf. EDE I 58-59.

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Proto-Semitic: *š/sar-

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Meaning: vertebral column, backbone; back; behind, back, after

Arabic: sarīr- 'base de la tête, endroit où elle est jointe au cou' [BK 1 1076]; sarāt- 'dos; milieu' [ibid. 1085] (<*saraw/y-at-)

Amharic: säräsär 'vertebra, spinal cord, sinew' [K 487] (redupl.).

Cf. šǝ(r)rǝt 'fin of a fish' [ibid. 623]

East Ethiopic: SEL särsär 'rib of an animal' [LGur I 1017] (redupl.)

Gurage: END sässär do. [LGur 233] (redupl.)

Mehri: sār 'behind; back, backwards' [JM 351]

Jibbali: sér 'behind; back, backwards' [JJ 231]

Harsusi: sār, ser 'behind, after' [JH 112]

Soqotri: sar (seri) 'derrière' [LS 290]

Notes:

Note doubling of the second radical and annexation of -w as a third radical in ARB, and a full stem reduplication in ETH.

See a derived term in ETH EAST and GUR: SEL CHA ENN END GYE särsär 'instrument made of the ribs of a cow and used for leveling the floor' [LGur 562] (discussion sub sǝlässälä [ibid. 544]).

Cf. a semantically obscure AKK šurʔu 'a part of the face or head' [CAD š3 367] (translated as 'Augenlid und Wimpern' in [AHw 1287]); comparable if the meaning were 'back of head'

Old Egyptian: sꜣ (pyr) 1, wsr-t (pyr) 2

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Meaning: 'back' 1, 'neck' 2

Proto-WChadic: *sar-

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Meaning: 'middle of back'

Hausa: sara EDE I 59 after Gouffé

Proto-CChadic: *sar-

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Meaning: 'waist'

Bura: kusar 'the lower part of the back;the waist' [Ann]

Chibak: ku-sar

Kilba: sar, Wuba sar

Bedauye: sára

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Meaning: 'back'

Notes: Bla Review 505

Proto-Agaw: *sVr-

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Meaning: 'back' 1, lower part 2

Khamir: sǝra 1

Awiya (Aungi): sǝr 2

Proto-Saho-Afar: *sarr-

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Meaning: 'tail; backside' 1, 'back, rear' 2

Saho: sara 1 ('Schwanz, Hinter-, Rückteil')

Afar (Danakil): sàrra 2

Proto-High East Cushitic: *sar-

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Meaning: 'tail'

Burji (Bambala, Dashe): saro

Proto-South Cushitic: *sir-

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Meaning: 'buttocks'

Burunge (Mbulungi): sira

Notes: Ehr HRSC 178

Dahalo: sáre

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Meaning: 'lower back, meat above buttock'

Mogogodo: sɛ̀rɛy

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Meaning: 'below, down'

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