Re: Baby/infant
| From: | Eric Christopherson <rakko@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, August 24, 2006, 2:28 |
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On Aug 23, 2006, at 1:29 AM, Yahya Abdal-Aziz wrote:
> - Tamazight (Semitic) has "taslmiya" or "tislmiwin" for baby; I
> cannot
> determine the etymology of either word, but both appear to have the
> triliteral root "s-l-m-" which in Arabic and Hebrew (Semitic) means
> "peace"
> or "safety".
Small nitpick - Tamazight (AKA Berber) is AFAIK classified as Afro-
Asiatic but not Semitic. Whether Berber is more closely related to
the Semitic languages than to the other AA languages seems to be an
open issue.