Berber etymology : List with all references

Proto-Berber: *t-ufa

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'sheep'

Canarian: Gomera tufa 'oveja' Wölf., 492

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʕay/wp-

Meaning: goat, ram

Semitic: *ʕVyp- ~ *paʕ- 'kid'

Berber: *t-ufa 'sheep' (otherwise <*ʔawp- 'sheep/goat' 3648)

Egyptian: ʕpwy 'ram' (20 Dyn)

Central Chadic: *ʕuf- 'goat' (?)

Warazi (Dullay): *piʕ- 'female goat'

Notes: Cf. *ʔawp- 'sheep/goat'

Number: 1963

Proto-Semitic: *ʕVyp- ~ *paʕ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'kid'

Arabic: faʕfaʕ- 'chevreau' [BK 2 614], [Fr. III 359], [TA XII 505] (= ǯady-, naḳalahu ṣ-ṣāɣānī), [Q III 64]. // Much scepticism about the attestation of the present term is expressed in [Sima 88-9] (f. does not appear in [LA VIII 255] where only the verbal root fʕfʕ 'to produce sounds (about the shepherd)'. In our opinion, Sima's remarks deserve full consideration but hardly invalidate completely the Arb. evidence for the present root.

Epigraphic South Arabian: Min. fyʕ 'chevreau' [LM 35]. // Hapax in the difficult passage MAFRAY-Darb aṣṢabī 1/7: wlygb bt_wr wḳtbs1w wfyʕ ṣlf (translated by the editors as 'qu'il soit redevable d'un taureau avec son double harnais et d'un chevreau (?) blanc (?)', but cf. criticism in [Sima 88-9]).

Soqotri: ʕéyfif (ʕífef) 'chevreau, en général petit de certaines animaux' [LS 319].

Notes: Probably an areal Arabian term, evidence for the reconstruction is scarce and not fully reliable. // Cf. Arb. ʕafw-, ʕifw-, ʕufw- 'ânon', ʕifwat-, ʕufwat- 'petit d'âne femelle' [BK 2 305], [Fr. III 188], [Lane 2094], [LA XV 79] (more forms quoted, discussion). // [LM 35]: Min., Arb.

Old Egyptian: ʕpwy

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'Name eines hlgn Widders' 20 Dyn., E-G I, 180

Proto-CChadic: *ʕuf-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'goat'

Logone: ūfu 'goat' Sk.NB 23; Kotoko (Chic. No. 3738) hufu "goat" (pn66); acc. to Stolb. 96, 74, Kot. h- may be <*ʕ/h, while *ʔ> ʔ

Proto-Warazi: *piʕ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: female goat

Dobase (Gobeze): piʕa-če Hay Qaw 63

Mogogodo: baḫbaḫ

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'small dikdik antelope'

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