Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/dac-
Proto-Afroasiatic
editRoot
edit*dac-
Reconstruction notes
editProto-Afroasiatic *-c- (and not *s) is reconstructed in the basis of the related *dac-, where it's attested in West Chadic and Central Chadic.
Descendants
edit- Egyptian: ds (“flint, knife”)
- Proto-Chadic: *das- (“knife”) (see there for further descendants) (only attested in Eastern Chadic)
Root
edit*dac-
Etymology
editRelated to *dac- (“flint knife”).
Descendants
edit- Egyptian: ds (“cut”)
- Chadic:
References
edit- Orel, Vladimir E., Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 140