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 East Semitic infixes -t- for intensive adjectival nominals. Existed also in NSem. also. PAA archaic remnant or innovation?
+Gentilitial/adjectival -iy attested in An Eg. and Sem. probably postpositional origin, also forms genitive -i
+Feminine -at probably < -a/iyt ~ matching -īy + -t
+Arabic placenames ending in -a/ā show a suffix -āwī (Ṣafā’ vs. Ṣafāwī) could be in An. Egypt. ''ḥmww'' “craftsman” ~ ''ḥmt'' “craft”
+''-t'' widely attested in Ancient EGyptian,Berber, Semitic, Cushitic. In Cushitic seems to be originally collective in a bunch of old conserved words. Lipiński gives Oromo abbōtī “elders” ~ Old Bab. ummatum. Probably primacy (cf. IE similar development) ~ abstract/collective/feminine meaning.
+Semitic compounds attested: Gafat ''abälamʷä'' “shepherd” < ''abʷä'' 'father' (cf. ''*‘ab'' id. ) and ''älamʷä'' “cow”, Phoen. ''Mlqrt'' < ''milk'' “king” and ''qart'' “city” (ASoIaF Quarth anyone?). Assyro-Babyl. ''ištenšeret'' “eleven” < ''ištēn'' “one” + ''ešeret'' (“ten”).
+===Gender===
+? Semitic + Berber + Cushitic share t- with the meaning of fem.
+however, Sem. shows bits of noun classes: ''*-b'' ~ wild/dangerous animals (missing in Chadic and Cushitic).
+''*-r~l'' seems to have been for domestic/tame animals, cf. Egyp. ''3-bw'' “elephant” , ''iy-r'' “deer”, ''s-rw'' “sheep”, ''d-b'' “hippo”