RECONSTRUCTING A CULTURAL LEXICON FOR PRE-HISTORY: BERBER ZOONYMS OF AFRASIAN (AFRO-ASIATIC) ORIGIN

• Authors: Militarev Alexander
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper contains 63 common Berber zoonyms denoting domesticated and wild animals and their cognates in various branches of the Afrasian (Afro-Asiatic, Semito–Hamitic) macro-family including reconstructed proto-forms for each branch and the macro-family. The research is based on the classical comparative and historical method relying on the established sound correspondences between the languages of every taxon.

Keywords

EN

BERBER; AFRASIAN; ZOONYMS; ETYMOLOGY; LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Oriental Studies, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Asian and African Studies
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1 - 47

Contributors

author

Militarev Alexander

• Russian State University for the Humanities, Miusskaya Sq., 6, Moscow, Russia 125993

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5684-3053

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/aassav.2022.31.1.01