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TAKÁCS, Gábor: "Sun" and "Moon" in Semitic and Egyptian in an Afro-Asiatic Context

„SUN" AND „MOON" IN SEMITIC AND EGYPTIAN 6. SISAJa I (1981), 45-46, #58 confused OEg. jbd with various mutually unrelated AA roots: 1. Sem.-Brb.-WCh. *b-d "to open, begin", 2. Eg. bd "erhellen" ||| WCh.: Angas-Sura *bit "morning". 7. In my opinion, the similarity with Agaw: Hamir bat "beginnen (nur vom Monat gesagt)", bät-ä "Anfang des Monats" [Rn. 1888, 350] || LECu.: Oromo bät-I "new moon" [Sasse 1982, 31] = bät-T "month, moon" [Ali-Zbr. 1990, 132] | HECu.: Burji bät-i "new moon" [Sasse 1982, 31], Darasa bät-e "new moon" [Lsl.] is probably misleading. NB: Theoretically, OEg. jbd < *bad would be possible (Belova's law), but OEg. -d = PCu. *-t is irregular. Moreover, W. Leslau (1969, 35; 1988, 184) suggests a fully different origin for the Cu. terms: Oromo bät-T < Anth. batä "to begin (month)", which is supposedly a denominative from ba'at "1. entry, 2. new moon" = Geez ba'at ~ bä'at "entry, beginning of month" from bo'a "to enter" < Sem. *bw'. 8. G. Takács: perhaps, OEg. 3bd < AA *l-b-t, cf. ECu. *libd- "to vanish, disappear" [Black] 9. G. Takács: perhaps cf. NOm.: Haruro bet "moon" [Mkr. quoting an old source, not found as such in CR 1937] (isolated?), which H. G. Mukarovsky (1987, 234) linked to Barea leta "moon". NB: C. Conti Rossini (1937, 642) gives only Haruro -zolint-e bett-idés "la luna é nuova". In this case, *bet could be identical with the ES & Cu. term described in paragraph 7. * * * ABBREVIATIONS OF LANGUAGES AA: Afro-Asiatic, Akk.: Akkadian, Alg.: Alagwa, Ar.: Arabic, Aram.: Aramaic, AS: Angas-Sura, Ass.: Assyrian, BA: Biblical Aramaic, Bch.: Bauchi, Brb.: Berber, Brg.: Burunge, C: Central, Ch.: Chadic, Cu.: Cushitic, E: East(ern), Eg.: Egyptian, ES: Ethio-Semitic, Gdm.: Ghadames, Grw.: Gorowa, Hbr.: Hebrew, Hgr.: Ahaggar, Hrs.: Harsusi, Irq.: lraqw, Jbl.: Jibbali, Kir.: Kulere, L: Late, M: Middle, Mhr.: Mehri, MK: Middle Kingdom, MSA: Modern South Arabian, N: North(ern), NE: New Egyptian, Nfs.: Nefusa, NK: New Kingdom, O: Old, OK: Old Kingdom, Om.: Omotic, OSA: Old South Arabian, P: Proto-, PT: Pyramid Texts, Qbl.: Qabyle, Qtb.: Qatabanian, S: South(ern), Sab.: Sabaean, Sem.: Semitic, Sqt.: Soqotri, Syr.: Syriac, Ug.: Ugaritic, W: West(em), Wim.: Tawllemmet, Zng.: Zenaga. ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES Abr.: Abraham, Alb.: Albright, Alj.: Alojaly, Aplg.: Applcgate, Bgn.: Beguinot, Biz.: Blazek, Bst.: Basset, Chn.: Cohen, Clc.: Calice, CR: Conti Rossini, Djk.: 277