Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/paʾr-

This Proto-Semitic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

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Proto-Semitic

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *paʾir-.

Noun

*paʾr-

1. mouse

Descendants

East Semitic

• Akkadian: 𒉾𒌉 (pērūrūtu, “mouse”)

Central Semitic

• Arabic: فَأْر‎ (faʾr)

South Semitic

• Amharic: ፍርፍር (fərfər, “a kind of field mouse”)
• Harari: فُوءْر (fūr, “mouse”)
• Inor: ፉኡር (fuʾur, “mouse”)
• Sebat Bet Gurage: ፉር (fur, “mouse”)

References

• Leslau, Wolf (1963) Etymological Dictionary of Harari, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 63
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1904) Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[1] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 109
• Orel, Vladimir E.; Stolbova, Olga V. (1995) Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary: Materials for a Reconstruction (Handbuch der Orientalistik; I.18)‎^[2], Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill, page 411