Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/birk-

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.

Proto-Semitic

Noun

*birk-, *bark-

knee

Comment

In Common Semitic there was a metathetic root formed, which yielded *ruk(u)b-at- "knee" (cf. Arabic رُكْبَة‎ (rúkba)), both of which had reflexes preserved in Arabic, Aramaic and Ethiopic (Ge'ez).

Descendants

Akkadian: 𒄭 (birku, burku [DUB₃, HI])
Amharic: ብርክ (bərk)
Arabic: بَرَكَ‎ (baraka, “to kneel”)
Maltese: birek
Aramaic:
Hebrew: בִּרְכָּא‎ (birkā)
Ge'ez: ብርክ (bərk)
Hebrew: בֶּרֶךְ‎ (béreḵ)
Syriac, Classical: ܒܘܪܟܐ‎ (burkā)
Tigrinya: ብርኪ (bərki)
Ugaritic: 𐎁𐎗𐎋 (brk)

Onomastics and borrowed terms

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