Berber etymology : List with all references

Proto-Berber: *buṭ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'navel'1 , 'belly' 2

Audjila: a-būt 1

Ahaggar (Tahaggart): tǝ-but-ut 1

Tawllemmet: tǝ-būt-ut 1

Semlal: a-buḍ 1

Ntifa: a-buḍ 2

Notes: Cf. Ntf i-biniḍ 'navel'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ba/uṭ(n)-

Meaning: belly

Semitic: *baṭn- '(big) belly', *bʔṭ, bṭṭ 'lie on the stomach'

Berber: *buṭ- 'navel; belly'

Egyptian: bnd (med) 'difficult delivery' (?)

Western Chadic: *buṭ- 'belly, stomach'

Notes: Related to *ba/uṭ- 'vessel; bottom of a vessel' ?

Number: 2024

Proto-Semitic: *baṭn-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: (big) belly

Canaanite: AMARNA ba-aṭ-nu-ma 'belly' [HJ 151]

Hebrew: bäṭän (with suff. biṭn-) 'belly' [KB 121]

Aramaic: OFF bṭn 'belly' [HJ 151]

Judaic Aramaic: biṭnā 'belly' [Ja 158]; bṭn 'womb' [Sok 91]

Syrian Aramaic: bǝṭēn 'concepit (utero)' [Brock 67], baṭnā 'conceptio, foetus' [ibid.]

Modern Aramaic: MAL bṭn 'schwanger sein, werden' [Berg 16]; beṭna (f.) 'schwanger' [ibid.] NASS bɔ̄ṭịn 'to be pregnant' [Tser 026]; pṭịntɔ 'pregnant', p̣ṭɔ̄nɔ 'pregnancy' [ibid. 027] MMND baṭantā 'pregnant' [M MND 515] AZR batnanta (lit.) 'pregnant woman'; bitna (arch.) 'womb'; btinta 'pregnant' [Garb 301] IRAN *bâṭin 'essere incinta' (pf. pçeßṭĕnteb_án) 'io sono incinta' [Pen 68]

Mandaic Aramaic: baṭna 'large belly; pregnancy' [DM 47]

Arabic: baṭn- 'ventre' [BK 1 138]; cf. bṭn 'avoir le ventre large, détendu' [ibid.]

Notes: Note parallel forms with -i- in HBR and ARM.

Only C. SEM.

Cf. such probably derived terms as CAN: AMN bṭn, designation of an architectural element [HJ 151], and PHO bṭn 'embossement (?)' [T 45].

Cf. two ETH examples attested only in the languages most open to ARB influence: TGR bäṭǝn 'belly' [LH 300] and EAST: HAR bäṭni 'voracious' [LHar 48]; both examples are very likely ARB loan-words (see [ibid.]).

Obviously of ARB origin (cf. ARB baṭīn- 'ventru, qui a un gros ventre' [BK 1 138]) are MSA forms: MHR bǝṭáyn 'having a big belly' [JM 58], HRS beṭī́n 'having a full stomach' [JH 20], JIB ebṭín 'to have a big belly' [JJ 31]).

[DRS 60]: AMARNA, HBR, ARM, ARB, TGR, HAR (< ARB) (*baṭn-); [KB 121]: HBR, AMARNA, ARM, ARB, TGR (< ARB); [Brock 67]: SYR, JUD, HBR, ARB, AKK buṭnu 'interiora' (in fact meaning 'terebinth' [CAD b 358]). Cf. Arb. bʔṭ, Gez. baṭaṭa 'lie on the stomach' (Hbr Soq bṭḥ id.), Tgr Tna Amh 'lie down'

Old Egyptian: bnd (med)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'difficult delivery'

Notes: Metathesis.

Proto-WChadic: *buṭ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'belly, stomach'

Mupun: ḅūt [FrM ]

Sura: ḅwùt [Kr N 66]

Angas: ḅwut [Kr}

Chip: ḅut [Kr}

Montol: ḅǝǝt [JgC]

Boghom: bǝdǝ-l [JgC]

Fyer: ḅútó [JgR]

Notes: Shift of emphatization, voicing of -t- in Bgh. Most probably related to Sem*bṭ-n.

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