East Chadic etymology : List with all references

Proto-EChadic: *kos-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'shoulder'

Kera: kósí

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *kacw-

Meaning: back with shoulders

Semitic: *ka/iska/is- ~ *kVsʔ/w- 'back, side or front part of the body (of a sheep?)'

Western Chadic: *kwasi- 'buttocks'

East Chadic: *kVHas- 'back'

Central Cushitic (Agaw): *kas- 'shoulder'

Low East Cushitic: *kaš- 'shoulder'

Warazi (Dullay): *kaš- 'shoulder'

Number: 1266

Proto-Semitic: *ka/iska/is- ~ *kVsʔ/w-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: back, side or front part of the body (of a sheep?)

Akkadian: kaskasu 'soft part of the sheep's breastbone; a cut of the meat of a sheep' OB on [CAD k 244], [AHw 454].

Rendered by SUM kak.zag.ga; a certain "phonetic" similarity of the two terms suggesting a borrowing looks accidental: both the AKK word with its rather reliable cognates in SEM, and the SUM one (kak 'nail, peg', zag 'side, front, back, etc.') seem well motivated

Arabic: kusʔ- 'derrière, partie postérieure d'une chose; derrière de la tête' [BK 2 894]

Tigre: kǝšwät 'sheep's side' [LH 408]; -š- must be a secondary development from *s (< SEM *s {} *c)

Amharic: kiskissa 'bone at the base of the tail' [K 1410]

Notes: A difficult case: meanings very diverse.

A reduplicated stem in AKK and AMH presumably goes back to the underlying "biconsonantal" root *kas- preserved in ARB and TGR and augmented with -ʔ and -w respectively.

Cf. also SYR kaskāsā 'decarnatio (ossum)' [Brock 338]; semantically difficult

Proto-WChadic: *kwasi-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'buttocks'

Sha: ʔakweš [JgR]

Kulere: kašáw

Daffo-Butura: kúŋ-gwíši

Proto-Agaw: *kas-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'shoulder'

Bilin: kas

Khamir: kesaa

Qwara: kaš

Proto-Low East Cushitic: *kaš-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'shoulder'

Konso: xaš-ito

Proto-Warazi: *kaš-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'shoulder'

Gawwada (Gawata): xašito

Harso (Werize): heššé

Gollango (Wellango): hašitto

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