Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/labiʔ-

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

Etymology

From Proto-Afro-Asiatic *labiʾ-. Gamkrelidze & Ivanov argue on the possibility of borrowing into Proto-Indo-European *lewo-, though it remains debatable.

Noun

*labiʾ-, *labuʾ-

lion, lioness

Descendants

East Semitic:
- Akkadian: 𒊊 (lābu [PIRIG]), 𒌨 (labbu [UR])
- Eblaite: 𒊊 (labʾum) [PIRIG])
Central Semitic:
- Arabic: لَبُؤَة‎ (labuʾa, “lioness”), لَبْوَة‎ (labwa)
  - Egyptian Arabic: لبوة‎ (lábwa)
  - Gulf Arabic: لبوة‎ (lɐbwə)
- Hebrew: לָבִיא‎ (lāḇīʾ)
South Semitic:
- Old South Arabian: 𐩡𐩨𐩱‎ (lbʾ )
- Ugaritic: 𐎍𐎁𐎜 (lbủ)

References

Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen‎ (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, pages 287 seqq.

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