List of Proto-Semitic stems
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This is a list of Proto-Semitic stems with their reflexes in several Semitic languages (i.e. actually-pronounced forms with vowels, as opposed to Semitic pure consonantal roots). Only stems attested in Akkadian, or with cognates in other Afro-Asiatic groups, can be confidently included in Proto-Semitic; others must be placed in West Semitic. There is some controversy in Semitic linguistics over the sibilants' pronunciation; see below.
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Semitic Sound Correspondences
The original value of the four sibilants here transcribed as Template:Semxlit is controversial. The traditional values are as given, but in recent years Template:Semxlit have been suggested, based on assimilations found in Akkadian. In the latter case, those values should be substituted into the Akkadian transcriptions as well.
Proto-Semitic Stems
Body parts
Animal names
Proto-West-Semitic Stems
This is a list of cognates for which no Akkadian cognate is known or attested.
English | PWS | Arabic | Hebrew | Syriac | Geez | Mehri |
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wasp | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit (> "bee") | Template:Semxlit | - | - |
holy | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | - |
son | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit | - | Template:Semxlit |
white | Template:Semxlit | Template:Semxlit (> "buttermilk") | Template:Semxlit | - | - | Template:Semxlit |