Reconstruction:Proto-Afroasiatic/ruub-
Proto-Afroasiatic
editRoot
edit*ruub-
- to send
Reconstruction notes
editSemitic and Egyptian went through the following semantic shift: to send -> to direct -> to command, to rule.
Descendants
edit- Cushitic:
- Afar: ruub (“to send”)
- Egyptian: nb (“master, lord”)
- Proto-Semitic: *rabb-
- Arabic: ر ب ب (r b b)
References
edit- Ehret, Christopher (1995), Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic, →ISBN, page 445