A complete etymology-based hundred wordlist of Semitic updated: Items 55-74

Abstract

The paper represents the fourth part of the author's etymological analysis of the Swadesh wordlist for Semitic languages (the first three parts having already appeared in Vols. 3, 5 and 7 of the same Journal). Twenty six more items are discussed and assigned Proto-Semitic reconstructions, with strong additional emphasis on suggested Afrasian (Afro-Asiatic) cognates.

Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019)

“…1 For some detail on the methodology of such a reconstruction see, e.g., Militarev 2010Militarev , 2011Militarev , 2012 For some other hypotheses about the kinship terminology of the proto-indoeuropeans see, e.g., Kullanda 2002Kullanda , 2013 3 For a recent summary of such evidence see, e.g., Anthony 2007Anthony , 2013Anthony and Ringe 2015. 4 Which, however, does not exclude the possibility to test eventually the compatibility of the reconstructed proto-Indo-European kinship terminology with the archaeological data on settlement plans of the populations of Neolithic Greece.…”

New lexical materials for the Proto-Afro-Asiatic anatomical and physiological terminology I: Body part names with initial labials: General terms, head and neck

“…The Sem. < AA basic vocabulary (100 wordlist) was examined in a series of lexicostatistical-etymological papers by Militarev (2010;2012;2014;. 12 Starting from the promising model of reconstructing the Semitic ancestral culture from the proto-lexicon (cf., e.g., Fronzaroli 1960Fronzaroli -1971Fronzaroli , 1975Tyloch 1975;Conti 1978), the Russian authors have ventured the PAA level, the Russian linguists have almost always only been engaged in acquiring and working with proto-lexicons of an entire branch in the best case, 18 so they massively neglected the more recent diachronic SAA levels in most segments of their comparative lexical contexts (the only exception being the early WCh.…”