Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/milḥ-
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Proto-West Semitic
editEtymology
editUltimately from Proto-Indo-European *mlh2u-, zero grade of *melh₂- (“to grind”), as in "grounded (salt)".
Noun
edit*milḥ- m
Descendants
edit- Central Semitic:
References
edit- Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 239
- Bernard, Chams (2024). "Indo-European Salt and Semitic Bulls. On the Etymology of *milḥ “Salt” and *θawr “Bull”" Zeitschrift der Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft 174, 117-132.