Proto-Semitic
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proto-semitic — I. “+ noun Usage: capitalized P&S : the assumed ancestral language of the Semitic languages II. adjective Usage: usually capitalized P&S : of or relating to Proto Semitic … Useful english dictionary
Proto-Semitic language — Proto Semitic is the hypothetical proto language of the Semitic languages. The earliest attestations of a Semitic language are in Akkadian, dating to ca. the 23rd century BC (see Sargon of Akkad). Early inscriptions in the (pre )Proto Canaanite… … Wikipedia
Semitic stem variation: Manifestations of the Proto-Semitic root — ▪ Table Semitic stem variation: Manifestations of the Proto Semitic root *ȡa; e33;b b;̣ in three languages Arabic Hebrew Syriac basic stem (G) qaba e0d; a (he) seized, took hold of qå e07;a e63; (he) gathered qə e07;aʕ he fastened passive… … Universalium
List of Proto-Semitic stems — This is a list of Proto Semitic stems (triconsonantal roots and extensions) with their reflexes in several Semitic languages (i.e. actually pronounced forms with vowels, as opposed to Semitic pure consonantal roots). Only stems attested in… … Wikipedia
SEMITIC LANGUAGES — SEMITIC LANGUAGES, the name given by A.L. Schloezer in 1781 to the language family to which Hebrew belongs because the languages then reckoned among this family (except Canaanite) were spoken by peoples included in Genesis 10:21–29 among the sons … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Proto-Afro-Asiatic — is the hypothetical proto language from which modern Afro Asiatic languages are descended.Ilya Yabonovich and other linguists, in examining the differences between the various members of the Afro Asiatic family have realised that all of the old… … Wikipedia
Proto-Religion — may refer to *notions of an Urreligion *early stages in the origin of religion in the course of human evolution *Paleolithic religion *within the context of a reconstructed proto language **Proto Indo European religion **Proto Semitic religion … Wikipedia
Semitic languages — Family of Afro Asiatic languages spoken in northern Africa and South Asia. No other language family has been attested in writing over a greater time span from the late 3rd millennium BC to the present. Both traditional and some recent… … Universalium
Semitic languages — Infobox Language family name=Semitic region=Middle East, North Africa, Northeast Africa and Malta familycolor=Afro Asiatic child1=East Semitic (extinct) child2=West Semitic child3=South Semitic iso2=semThe Semitic languages are a language family… … Wikipedia
Semitic — In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical Shem , Hebrew: שם, translated as name , Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages.This family includes… … Wikipedia
