Low East Cushitic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Low East Cushitic: *gab-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'riverbank' 1, 'next to, near, beside' 2

Somali: gebi 1

Konso: kapa 2

Gidole (Dirasha): kapa 2

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *gab-

Meaning: side, bank, beach

Semitic: *ga(n)b- 'side; beside; back; body'

Egyptian: wd_b (pyr) 'bank'

Western Chadic: *gaḅ- 'bank' 1, 'side' 2, 'put near' 3

Central Chadic: *gubb- 'nearby'

Beḍauye (Beja): *gab 'side' 1, 'by, with, near' 2

Central Cushitic (Agaw): *gab- 'side'

Saho-Afar: *gabb- 'side (of back)'

Low East Cushitic: *gab- 'riverbank' 1, 'next to, near, beside' 2

High East Cushitic: *gab- 'side'

Warazi (Dullay): *kap- (<*gab-) 'side'

Notes: Cf. EDE I 223; Bla Review 501.

Number: 2606

Proto-Semitic: *ga(n)b-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: side; beside; back; body

Hebrew: gab 'back' [KB 170]; PB 'body, esp. back' [Ja 203] (<*gabb-, possibly < *ganb-)

Aramaic: OLD PLM gb 'side' [HJ 207]

Biblical Aramaic: gab 'Seite' [KB deutsch 1684]

Judaic Aramaic: gabbā 'back, body' [Ja 203]; cf. gōnǝbā, gǝnūbtā 'tail' [ibid. 257]

Syrian Aramaic: gabbā, st. abs. and cstr. genb 'latus' [Brock 123]

Mandaic Aramaic: gamba, ganba 'flank, side, border' [DM 76]; cf. also guba 'body, trunk; thickness' [DM 82]

Arabic: ǯanb- 'côté' [BK 1 334]

Tigre: gäbo 'side' [LH 582]; cf. ʔǝngǝb 'anus, buttocks' [ibid. 374] (<*ʔV-gVnb with the ʔV-prefix and metathesis?).

Cf. also ǧäm (suff. ǧämma, ǧämba) 'side' [LH 548] (an Arabism?)

Mehri: ganb, gǝnbēt 'side' [JM 122]

Jibbali: ganb do. [JJ 77]

Notes: See derived verbs in ESA: SAB gnb 'to be beside smth.' [SD 50] and MIN gnb 'se trouver à côté de qqn/qqch' [LM 36].

To the ETH examples above to be reconstructed as *gabaw-, cf. TGR AMH ARG wägäb 'side, waist', ZWY wägäb 'waist' [LGur 647] (all metathetically related?).

Cf. GUR: ENN gupa 'height of body, stature' [LGur I 317], GYE gʷǝpa 'height' [ibid. 675], END guppä- [ibid. 191], GOG gubba- 'self' [ibid. 565], SOD gubba- 'alone, self' [ibid. 1063]; all < *gubba (see [LGur 256]), with a meaning shift 'side; back; body' > 'height of body, stature' > 'self'?

Note that MSA examples (MHR, HRS and JIB) may be Arabisms.

[DRS 150]

Old Egyptian: wd_b (pyr)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'bank'

Proto-WChadic: *gaḅ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'bank' 1, 'side' 2, 'put near' 3

Hausa: gáḅà 1, gàbaatà 3

Dwot: gǝ́ǝp 2 [Cs]

Notes: -p < *-b-.

Proto-CChadic: *gubb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'nearby'

Higi Baza: góbio

Musgu: gubbi, gobi

Masa: gob

Bedauye: gäb, geb 1, gɛb 2

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'side' 1 (Rein), 'by, with, near' 2 (Roper)

Proto-Agaw: *gab-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'side'

Bilin: gaf

Khamir: gǝba

Notes: *gab- ~ *gäb- 'side' (Appleyard)

Proto-Saho-Afar: *gabb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'side (of back)'

Afar (Danakil): gabbe

Notes: Sasse Bur, 74

Proto-High East Cushitic: *gab-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'side'

Burji (Bambala, Dashe): gáb-a

Proto-Warazi: *kap- (<*gab-)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'side'

Harso (Werize): kapa

Dihina: kapa

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