Afroasiatic etymology : Query result

Notes: Cf. HSED, 1662 *leb- 'elephant' comparing Eg. ;bw, Tangale and Mokilko forms; and also Logone nevi 'elephant' with "irregular n- <*l-" (hardly comparable).

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVb-

Meaning: ashes

Semitic: *lhb 'flame' - cf.

Egyptian: nby (pyr) 'ashes, flame; burn'

Central Chadic: *lVḅ- 'ash'

Beḍauye (Beja): luw <*lub- 'burn'

Warazi (Dullay): *lub- 'burn'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVbaḥ-

Meaning: be wet

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Egyptian: ỉbḥ (MK)

Western Chadic: *lubVh-

Central Chadic: *HVlub-

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVhab-

Meaning: burn, be hot

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *lahab- 'flame', 'fever' ~ *lVhab- 'burn, be bright'

Egyptian: rhb 'hot ashes' (BD), 'glow' (LM)

Central Chadic: *laḅ- 'make fire, put a lot of fire wood' 1, warm' 2

East Chadic: Cf. *ruḅ- 'burn clay vessels'

Central Cushitic (Agaw): *lib- 'heat, cook' (v.)

Notes: Cf. also Bed liw- 'burn' as a possible continuation of *lib-. Related to *lVb- 'ashes'?

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVhVm-

Meaning: big, many

Semitic: *lVhVm- 'thousand; great number'

Western Chadic: *lumum- 'in quantity'

High East Cushitic: *lum- 'big'

Notes: Related to *liʔam- 'get together; be relative, companion'?

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVk-

Meaning: hip, thigh

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *Hilk- waist, posterior (lower part of Siamese twins' body) (?)

Berber: Ayr tǝ-lănkaw-t 'tail'

Central Cushitic (Agaw): *likʷ- 'leg, hip'

Saho-Afar: *lak- 'hip, thigh, leg'

Low East Cushitic: *lukk- 'leg, hip'

High East Cushitic: *le/ukk- 'leg, hip'

Dahalo (Sanye): luka 'thigh'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVk- (?)

Meaning: be weak

Semitic: *lVk- 'be weak'

Egyptian: iꜣt_ (ME) 'ache (v.)'

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVḳ-

Meaning: lick

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *lVḳ(lVḳ)- 'lick' 1, 'lap' 2

Berber: *lVḳ- 'lick'

Western Chadic: *laḳ- 'eat greedily' 1, 'lick' 2

Central Chadic: *lVk- 'lick'

East Chadic: *li-lik-/*lwa-lwak- 'taste with the tip of the tongue' 1, 'dribble' 2

Beḍauye (Beja): lak- 'lick'

Low East Cushitic: *liḳ-/*loḳ- 'swallow, lap'

Notes: Deverbatives in WCh *lyaḳ- 'tongue' (Geji leka, Tule lyāga, Zul lǝ̀ka) and Agaw *lanḳ- id. (Bil lanḳii, Xmr laḳ, Kwr lanx, Dem lanx, Kem lanx).

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVm- (?)

Meaning: boat, ship

Egyptian: ỉmw 'kind of ship' (OK)

Central Chadic: *lum-

Notes: Scarce data. Eg > Ch?

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *lVw-

Meaning: house, dwelling place

Berber: *liw- 'room'

Egyptian: nw.t 'village, town' (pyr)

Western Chadic: *luw- 'house, hut'

Central Chadic: *luw- 'town'

East Chadic: *ʔa-luw- 'inside, in the house' 1, 'straw hut' 2