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Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔaḫw-
Proto-Semitic
Noun
*ʔaḫw- m (plural *ʔaḫan)[1]
- brother
Inflection
Declension of *ʔaḫw-
Case | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | *ʔaḫwum | *ʔaḫwāna | *ʔaḫanūna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | *ʔaḫwim | *ʔaḫwayna | *ʔaḫanīna | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | *ʔaḫwam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
possessive forms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1st person | *ʔaḫwī / *ʔaḫwVya | — | *ʔaḫwVni | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd person m | *ʔaḫwVka | *ʔaḫwVkumā / *ʔaḫwVkumay | *ʔaḫwVkum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2nd person f | *ʔaḫwVki | *ʔaḫwVkin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd person m | *ʔaḫwVšu | *ʔaḫwVšumā / *ʔaḫwVšumay | *ʔaḫwVšum(ū) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3rd person f | *ʔaḫwVša | *ʔaḫwVšin(ā) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Note: the endings -m and -na are dropped in the bound form, which may also undergo syncopation of an unstressed final vowel where possible. Note: the ending -V before the possessive endings responds to case: *ʔaḫwuya for nom. case, *ʔaḫwiya for gen. case, *ʔaḫwaya for acc. case, etc. Declension of 2sg m. possessive form (your/thy m.) *ʔaḫw-
Declension of 2sg f. possessive form (your/thy f.) *ʔaḫw-
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Coordinate terms
- *ʔabw-
- *ʔimm-
- *ʔaḫwat-
- *bin-
- *bint-
Derived terms
- *ʔaḫwat- (“sister”)
Descendants
- East Semitic:
- Akkadian: 𒋀 (aḫum)
- West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
- Arabic: أَخ (ʾaḵ)
- Gulf Arabic: أخو (uḵu)
- Maltese: ħu
- Moroccan Arabic: أخ (ʔaḵḵ), (construct state) خو (ḵū), (construct state) خا (ḵā)
- → English: akh, akhi
- → Malayalam: ഇക്ക (ikka)
- → Portuguese: Lafões
- Northwest Semitic:
- Aramaic:
- Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲחָא (ʾăḥā)
- Classical Syriac: ܐܰܚܳܐ (ʾaḥā)
- Canaanite:
- Hebrew: אָח ('ákh, ʾāḥ)
- Phoenician: 𐤀𐤇 (ʾḥ)
- Punic: 𐤀𐤇 (ʾḥ)
- Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎃 (ảḫ /ʾaḫu/)
- Aramaic:
- Old South Arabian:
- Hadrami: 𐩱𐩭 (ʾḫ)
- Minaean: 𐩱𐩭 (ʾḫ)
- Qatabanian: 𐩱𐩭 (ʾḫ)
- Sabaean: 𐩱𐩭 (ʾḫ)
- Arabic: أَخ (ʾaḵ)
- Ethiopian Semitic:
- Argobba: አህ (äh)
- Ge'ez: እኍ (ʾəḫʷ), አኀው (ʾäḫäw, plural)
- Harari: እሕ (əḥ)
- Tigre: ሑ (ḥu)
- Tigrinya: ሓወ (ḥawä)
- Central Semitic:
References
- John Huehnergard (2019), “Proto-Semitic”, in The Semitic Languages, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN