Semitic etymology : Query result

Number: 2227

Proto-Semitic: *ṭVb(w)-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: teat

Arabic: ṭiby-, ṭuby- 'mamelle, pis' [BK 2 58]; waṭb- 'outre à lait, sein très developpé' [ibid. 1561] is rather *waṭb- <AA *ṭab- 'container'

Geʕez (Ethiopian): ṭǝb, pl. ʔaṭbāt 'teat' [LGz 587]

Tigre: ṭub 'breast, teat' [LH 616], pl. ʔaṭbay

Tigrai (Tigriñña): ṭub 'mammella' [Bass 913]

Amharic: ṭut 'breast, nipple, teat' [K 2139]

Gafat: ṭŭwwä 'sein' [LGaf 242]

Harari: ṭōt [LHar 156] 'breast'

East Ethiopic: SEL WOL ZWY ṭub [LGur 607] do.

Gurage: MSQ ṭǝb, GOG SOD ṭǝbuyyä, EŽA END ṭǝw, MUH ṭǝwǝyyä, GOG ṭǝwuyyäč, ENN END GYE ṭu do. [ibid.]

Mehri: wōṭǝb 'teat, nipple' [JM 433]

Jibbali: ɛ́ṭǝb 'teat of a camel' [JJ 294]

Harsusi: ḥāṭeb 'teat' [JH 138] (with the ḥa-article)

Soqotri: ʔáṭab 'pis' [LS 57] (see also [SSL 4 100])

Notes: Only in Southern SEM area.

Originally a biconsonantal base (probably preserved in ETH) with various strategies of triconsonantization in individual languages; a variant stem *waṭVb-, attested in ARB, MHR and possibly other MSA, may have a common SEM status unless the MSA examples in *wa- are Arabisms. HRS and JIB forms may reflect either *waṭVb or *ʔa-ṭVb, the SOQ one is from *ʔa-ṭVb; *ʔa- may be a prefix and/or triconsonantizer.

Note a derived verb in N. ETH: GEZ ṭabawa 'to suck milk, the breast' [LGz 587], TGR ṭäba 'to suck' [LH 616], TNA ṭäbäwä 'poppare attacarsi alla mamella della madre' [Bass 912].

[LGz 587]: GEZ, ETH, ARB, SOQ, MHR; [LS 57]: SOQ, MHR, ARB (waṭb-, ṭiby-), GEZ, AMH