Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/-t
Proto-Afroasiatic edit
Notes edit
It has been theorized that the affix was originally a marker of nominal class, *-(a)t, with /a/ reflected in the Semitic branch , which later developed into a marker of the feminine gender. It came to partially supplant the older feminine ending *-H̥ ~ *-i̥ which had long lost its productivity.[1]
Suffix edit
*-t, *-Vt
- Marks nouns as feminine
Descendants edit
- Proto-Berber: *t-, *-t
- Proto-Chadic: *-t
- Proto-Cushitic: *-t (uncertain)
- Afar: t- (possibly)
- Egyptian: -t
- Proto-Semitic: *-at- (see there for further descendants)
References edit
- ^ Diakonoff, Igor M. (1988) Afrasian Languages (Languages of Asia and Africa), Moscow: Nauka, pages 57–58.