Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/dûm-
Proto-Afroasiatic
editRoot
edit*dûm-
- to proclaim
- to speak forcefully
Descendants
edit- Cushitic:
- Somali: dundun (“argument”)
- Egyptian: dm (“to proclaim, to name, to mention”)
- Proto-Semitic: *damdam-
- Arabic: د م د م (d m d m)
References
edit- Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, →ISBN, page 133