Zanahi/Swadesh list: Difference between revisions

! '''No.''' !! [[wikipedia:English language|English]] !! [[Zanahi]] !! [[Proto-Zanahic]] !! Etymology of Zanahi form (if not directly from the Proto-Zanahic)

| 1 || [[wiktionary:I|I]] || ’ammā || *ʔéṣ || ''*ʔán-'' "that (over there)" + lengthened variant of ''*mé'' "me" (perhaps the ablative ''*méṭ'').

| 2 || [[wiktionary:you|you (singular)]] || ’antā (''m.''); ’antī (''f.'') || *túʔ || Masculine form from ''*ʔán-'' "that (over there)" + lengthened variant of ''*twé'' "thee" (perhaps the ablative ''*twéṭ''). The feminine was then formed by analogy with the third person pronoun (supported by the Semitic counterparts).

| 3 || [[wiktionary:he|he]] || hattā (''m.''); hattī (''f.'') || *hóh; *tóh || From a combined pronoun ''*hohtóh'' in which both parts would have originally been declined.

| 4 || [[wiktionary:we|we]] || ’annā || *wéyeh || ''*ʔán-'' "that (over there)" + ''*nōh'' "us (clitic)" or ''*noʔ'' "us two (clitic)".

| 5 || [[wiktionary:you|you (plural)]] || ’antān (''m.''); ’antīn (''f.'') || *yū́h || From the singular by analogy.

| 6 || [[wiktionary:they|they]] || hattān (''m.''); hattīn (''f.'') || *hóy, *híʔah, *háʔ; *tóy, *tíʔah, *táʔ || See the third person singular.

| 7 || [[wiktionary:this|this]] || sā (''m.''); sī (''f.'') || *sóh, *síʔ, *sóṭ ||  

| 8 || [[wiktionary:that|that]] || tā (''m.''); tī (''f.'') || *tóh, *tíʔ, *tóṭ; *hóh, *híʔ, *hóṭ; *ʔánoh, *ʔániʔ, *ʔánoṭ || *tóh

| 11 || [[wiktionary:who|who]] || kī || *kóh, *kíʔ || From the feminine (since the masculine would give an identical form to the neuter).

| 12 || [[wiktionary:what|what]] || kā || *kóh, *kíʔ, *kóṭ || From the neuter.

| 14 || [[wiktionary:when|when]] || kaṭā || *kóṭe || Zanahi: From an extended form, perhaps with an instrumental suffix (''*-ʔ'') or ablative suffix (''*-ṭ'').

| 16 || [[wiktionary:not|not]] || lā; mā || *nē̆, *meʔ || ''lā'': a modification of earlier ''*nā'' due to Semitic influence.

| 17 || [[wiktionary:all|all]] || ḥalw || *holwóh, -áʔ, -óm ||

| 18 || [[wiktionary:many|many]] || palō || *pélʔuh (oblique stem: *pl̥ʔéw-) ||

| 19 || [[wiktionary:some|some]] || kiyān ||

| 20 || [[wiktionary:few|few]] || pawr || *páʔuroh (oblique stem: *pəwr-)

| 21 || [[wiktionary:other|other]] || ’antar || *ʔályoh; *ánteroh (''of two'') ||

| 22 || [[wiktionary:one|one]] || ‘ayn, ‘aynā || *ʔóynoh

| 23 || [[wiktionary:two|two]] || ṭuwā || *ṭwóʔ, *ṭwáʔʔe, *ṭwóʔ ||

| 24 || [[wiktionary:three|three]] || tirayā, tirē || *tréyeh, *triʔ (oblique stem: *tri-) || From the nominative stem, with an anological ''-ā'' and Semitic-influenced reverse polarity.

| 25 || [[wiktionary:four|four]] || kaṯurā, kaṯur || *ketwóreh, *ketwṓr (oblique stem: *ketur-) ||

| 26 || [[wiktionary:five|five]] || pankā, pank || *pénke ||

| 27 || [[wiktionary:big|big]] || maṣā || *méṣəh (oblique stem: *m̥ṣʔ-) ||

| 28 || [[wiktionary:long|long]] || ṭalg || *ṭl̥ʔgóh ||

| 29 || [[wiktionary:wide|wide]] || piltō || *plétuh (oblique stem: *pl̥téw-) ||

| 30 || [[wiktionary:thick|thick]] || binzō || *bénzuh (oblique stem: *bn̥zéw-) ||

| 31 || [[wiktionary:heavy|heavy]] || qarō || *ḳráʔus (oblique stem: *ḳr̥ʔéw-) ||

| 32 || [[wiktionary:small|small]] || šuṭr ||  ||

| 34 || [[wiktionary:narrow|narrow]] || ’anzō ||

| 35 || [[wiktionary:thin|thin]] || tanō ||

| 36 || [[wiktionary:woman|woman]] || qān ||

| 37 || [[wiktionary:man|man (adult male)]] || wīr || *wíʔroh

| 38 || [[wiktionary:man|man (human being)]] || mirt || *mr̥tóh ||