Afroasiatic etymology : Query result

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *piʔVr-

Meaning: elephant/rhinoceros (< horn?)

Semitic: *pīr- (<*piʔr-?) 'elephant'

Western Chadic: *(ʔa-)pi/ar- 'horn' (?)

Central Chadic: *pir- 'elephant'

Mogogodo (Yaaku): *puriʔ- 'rhinoceros'

Omotic: (?) *far- 'horn'

Notes: Cf. Sem. *pīl-, Gz. falfal- id. Cf. Ill.-Sv. 1966, 26 (Sem. and Margi) and, in this connecrion, *pi/al- 'elephant; aardvark'. Cf. Bla. Eleph., 196, where various Afras. forms in -r and -l, some meaning 'elephant/rhinoceros', other 'horn' are united, and "the semantic motivation "horn" > "elephant (/rhinoceros)" confirmed by typological evidences" (in particular, Sum. am-si 'elephant', composed from am 'wisent' and si 'horn' , apud Salonen 1976, 175) is tentatively proposed.