Central Cushitic (Agaw) etymology : Query result

Proto-Agaw: *kabg- (<*gabgab- <*ʕVgab-?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'buffalo'

Bilin: kabga 'Büffel' Rein. Bil., 221

Notes: Cf. Bla. CL, 2, where *g > Agaw g:k

Proto-Agaw: *kanf/b-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'wing'

Bilin: kanfi

Khamta: kenfaa

Qwara: kamb

Qemant: kämbii

Awiya (Aungi): kenfii

Notes: Unless a loan from Eth.

Proto-Agaw: *kanpar-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'lip'

Bilin: kanfǝr

Qwara: kanpǝr

Qemant: kǝmbǝr

Awiya (Aungi): kanfar

Proto-Agaw: *kas-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'shoulder'

Bilin: kas

Khamir: kesaa

Qwara: kaš

Proto-Agaw: *katVb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'tear'

Bilin: katäb-

Proto-Agaw: *kič- (?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'basket'

Khamir: kizaa

Qemant: kišaa

Proto-Agaw: *ki/an-t-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'learn'1 , 'see' 2

Bilin: kǝn-t- 1

Khamir: kin-t- 1

Qwara: kin-t- 1

Awiya (Aungi): kan-t- 2

Proto-Agaw: *kim-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'cattle, cow'

Bilin: kim

Khamir: kim

Qwara: kim

Dembea: kim

Qemant: kemaa

Awiya (Aungi): kemii

Notes: Innovative *-i-?

Proto-Agaw: *kin-

Meaning: 'custom, usage'

Bilin: kin-

Khamir: kin-

Proto-Agaw: *kirkir-

Meaning: 'skull'

Bilin: kirkir-taa

Proto-Agaw: *kiw-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'buffalo'

Qwara: kuwaa

Dembea: kewaa

Awiya (Aungi): kiwi

Proto-Agaw: *kiyan

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'marriage'

Bilin: keɣān

Khamir: kīyan

Qwara: kīyan, kēn

Qemant: kiyan

Notes: Con Ros Kem 218

Proto-Agaw: *kiʒ-

Meaning: 'basket'

Khamir: kiz/žaa

Proto-Agaw: *koy-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'partridge'

Bilin: koya 'Perlhuhn' Rein

Proto-Agaw: *ku/il(kil)- (?)

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'pasture; lowland'

Khamir: kilkil 'Wiese, Trift' (Reinisch 1884, 376; likely a loan of Amh. kǝlkǝl)

Qwara: kōla 'das Tiefland, die Niederung' (Reinisch 1885 Die Quarasprache, 83; unless a semantic shift from*kal(aʔ)- 'earth, land')

Proto-Agaw: *kur-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'river'

Bilin: kuraa

Qwara: kuraa

Dembea: kuraa

Qemant: kuraa

Proto-Agaw: *kuy-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'emit sounds'

Awiya (Aungi): koy-ŋ

Proto-Agaw: *kVm-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be evening'

Awiya (Aungi): kǝm-ǝn

Proto-Agaw: *kwarb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'skin' 1, 'bark' 2

Khamta: kerbir 2

Qwara: korbē 1

Qemant: kʷɔrɛvɛ 1

Proto-Agaw: *k[wi]R-

Meaning: 'cub'

Khamir: kʷǝrkʷǝr