Reconstruction:Proto-West Semitic/maʕaz-

This Proto-West Semitic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-West Semitic

*maʕazāna – Capra aegagrus cretica

Noun

*maʕaz- m or f

goat

Descendants

West Semitic:
- Central Semitic:
  - Arabic: مَعَز (maʕaz)
    - Maltese: mogħoż
  - Northwest Semitic:
    - Aramaic:
      Jewish Palestinian Aramaic: מעזי (“goat hair”, plurale tantum)
      
      Jewish Literary Aramaic: מַעֲזֵי (maʿăzē), מַעְזֵי (maʿəzē), מְעַזֵּי (məʿazzē, “goat hair”, plurale tantum)
      
      Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מַעַזְּיָא (məʿazzəyā, “hair”, plurale tantum)
      - Classical Syriac: ܡܰܥ̈ܙܶܐ (maʿəzē, “hair”, plurale tantum)
        → Old Armenian: մազ (maz, “hair”)
  - Old South Arabian:
    - Minaean: 𐩣𐩲𐩸𐩺 (mʿzy, dual)
  - Safaitic: 𐪃𐪒𐪘 (mʿz)
- Modern South Arabian:
  - >? Shehri: moŝɛ́t (“livestock”)

References

Militarev, Alexander, Kogan, Leonid (2005) Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume II: Animal Names, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 200–201 No. 148
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, page 243
Sima, Alexander (2000) Tiere, Pflanzen, Steine und Metalle in den altsüdarabischen Inschriften (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 116–117

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