Berber etymology : List with all references

Proto-Berber: *-dis-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'belly'

Ghadames: ta-dis-t

Nefusa: ti-ddis-t

Ntifa: a-dis

Seghrushen: ta-dis-t

Mzab: a-ʕddis

Iznassen: a-ʕäddīs

Shawiya: a-ʕdis

Notes: Fod ta-dîs-t, Gur ta-ddis-t

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *dVs(-Vm/n)-

Meaning: fat belly

Semitic: *dVšm/n- 'fat; fatness'

Berber: *-dis- 'belly'

Number: 2039

Proto-Semitic: *dašm/n- {} *dasm/n-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: fat (n.); fatness

Hebrew: däšän 'fatness' [KB 234]; cf. PB dōšän 'fat pasture ground' [Ja 291]

Judaic Aramaic: došnā, dišnā 'fat' [Ja 326] (n.).

Note that another meaning, 'honorary gift', is not related since this homonymous term is an Iranian loanword [HJ 262-3]

Arabic: dasima 'être gras' [BK 1 697]; cf. dasam- 'qualité d'un aliment gras', ʔadsam- 'très gras' [ibid.]

Notes: Reliably attested only in C. SEM.

Cf. AKK duššumu, adj. describing a characteristic bodily trait (in PN only), OAkk on [CAD d 200], [AHw 179]; note that dašnu 'Gewaltiger' (=dannu) hardly belongs here (see discussion in [CAD d 120], where the word is left without translation).

Supported by AFRASIAN data (above), which point to the primary stem *daš- {} *das-; in this connnection one wonders whether -m and -n are two different suffixes or *-m > -n in HBR and ARM by assimilation to d-.

[DRS 321], [KB 234]: HBR, ARB, AKK (duššumu, dašnu)

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