East Chadic etymology : List with all references

Proto-EChadic: *naHan-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'saliva'

Birgit: naani

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *naḫ-

Meaning: saliva, phlegm

Semitic: *naḫ- 'respiratory mucosa; phlegm'

Berber: *nVḫnVḫ 'speak through the nose' - Cf.

Egyptian: nh_ (pyr) 'saliva; spit out'

Central Chadic: *nayVH- 'saliva'

East Chadic: *naHan- (<*naHnaH-?) 'saliva'

Mogogodo (Yaaku): núkaʔ, pl. nuk'ǎcoʔ 'nose' <*nug-

Number: 2623

Proto-Semitic: *naḫ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: respiratory mucosa; phlegm

Akkadian: nah_nah_atu 'Nasenscheidewand' NA [AHw 715], 'cartilage' [CAD n1 140] (redupl.). Note Holma's translation 'Nasenknorpel, Nasenwurzel' (with a comprehensive semantic discussion) [Holma 20]

Syrian Aramaic: naḥnaḥtā 'tonsillae' [Brock 423] (redupl.)

Arabic: nuh_mat- 'ce que l'on jette par la bouche ou par le nez, comme pituite, glaire, etc.', nuh_āmat- do. [BK 2 1223].

On suffixed -m cf. Introduction

Jibbali: nh_ɔh_ 'phlegm' [JJ 199]

Notes: Note various strategies of triconsonantization in individual languages: stem reduplication in AKK, SYR and TGR (cf. a derived verb tänäḥanäḥa 'débarrassa son gosier' [LH 324, apud. d'Abb]); doubling of a second radical in JIB; taking ʔ as a second or third radical in GEZ; inclusion of -m suffix as a third radical in ARB.

Note HBR PB nīăʕ 'the effort made to remove phlegm, hawking; the phlegm discharged by hawking' [Ja 906], a variant root with ʕ/h_?

One wonders if AKK nāh_u, nuh_h_u 'lard' OAkk on [CAD n1 142; n2 317], [AHw 715-16] and ARB nuh_h_-, nah_āh_at- 'moelle' [BK 2 1219] can be compared with a meaning shift 'phlegm' > 'a viscid substance' (cf. a somewhat similar meaning shift in HBR ḥēläb 'fat' vs. ARM JUD ḥēläb 'a viscous substance, glair', see *h_ilb-, No. ).

[Holma 20]: AKK, SYR; [Brock 423]: SYR, AKK

Proto-Berber: *nVḫnVḫ

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'speak through the nose'

Ghadames: nǝḫnǝḫ Lan 244

Old Egyptian: nh_ (pyr)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'saliva; spit out'

Proto-CChadic: *nayVH-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'saliva'

Mandara=Wandala: nyɛhɛ [Kr: 86]

Malgwa: ǝ́nye [Lr]

Mwulyen: nàyí [Kr: N 80]

Bachama: nawyɛy [Kr: N 80]

Lame: neʔe [Sy: 55]

Mesme: neʔe

Mogogodo: n'úkaʔ, pl. nuk'ǎcoʔ (?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: nose

Notes: Heine Yaaku

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