Appendix:Proto-Semitic/birk-

Proto-Semitic

Noun

*birk- ~ *bark-

1. knee

Comment

In Common Semitic there was a metathetic root formed, which yielded *ruk(u)b-at- "knee" (cf. Arabic رُكْبَة (rúkba)), both of which had reflexes preserved in Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopian (Tigre and Ge'ez).

Descendants

• Akkadian: 𒄭 (birku, burku) [DUB₃, HI]
• Amharic: ብርክ (bǝrk)
• Arabic: برك (báraka)
• Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܒܘܪܟܐ (burkā)

  Hebrew: ברכא (birkā)

• Ge'ez: ብርክ (bǝrk)
• Hebrew: בֶּרֶךְ (bérekh)
• Tigrinya: ብርኪ (bərki)
• Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎋 (brk)

Onomastics and borrowed terms

• Barack
• Barakah
• Berakhah