Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/šawmān-

Noun

 * 1) dove

Reconstruction notes
It was suggested in Rescher (1911) to identify 🇨🇬 with 🇨🇬.

He knew some examples where Arabic varies  with, such as and. About the relevant sound-changes for the first phoneme there was little consciousness then:

Akkadian s corresponding to West-Semitic š is secured, leaving no need to read here, such as for  and even, and has been taken since Goetze (1958) as grounds to posit another Proto-Semitic phoneme.

Whereas a sound-law effective in West-Semitic, visible in, was formulated in Al-Jallad (2015): Arabic seems to have evaded the second sound shift by shifting to, bringing it closer to a lovely phonestheme (as in , compare dialectal , a fruit as plump as the pigeon), while 🇨🇬 opted for popular  in the first position. The Arabic and Akkadian forms have been left out in Militarev and Kogan (2005, 2011), reconstructing but with the Amharic and Northwest Semitic, without the Amorite form later added by Golinets (2016), an unlikely variation ~ , but the usual terms for “dove, pigeon” in Arabic and Akkadian were left isolated thus, listing instead the Akkadian together with but an obscure  and , which has a native derivation, under *sVm(V)m(-at)- ~ *cVm(V)m(-at)-.
 * 1) Incompletely in 🇨🇬 depending on regio- and chronolect, and in Arabic and Ethio-Semitic:.
 * 1) Incompletely in 🇨🇬 depending on regio- and chronolect, and in Arabic and Ethio-Semitic:.

Assuming this form *šawmān-, the ultimate derivation may be transparent, from the verb  whence 🇨🇬, in reference to how pigeons walk around, compare the etymology of 🇨🇬; hardly  whence  since flying high is not distinctive for doves, while the formal match is also less, unless one reconstructs.

The morphological transparency as a well-known but rather meaningless suffix then accounts for the loss of in Akkadian, while the full form can be seen in the terminative, though  be assumed an alternative form of. From the full Akkadian form could only be borrowed, alternatively -ān- is a West Semitic addition and we have to reconstruct  respectively, however compare ,  where Arabic and 🇨🇬 point to an archaism in , and in either case, the trailing consonant following the stress was hard to hear and could not resist the pressure of the middle , hence Amorite and Arabic have regressively assimilated it for economy as  – that is, the change in place of articulation, though its assumption in addition to other transformations seem unparsimonious in connecting the common Semitic term, took place because its retention required to change the place of articulation at every instance of the word’s pronunciation and was thus unparsimonious and ultimately unlikely. Recognizing alteration being more likely than not, -ān is the lectio difficilior, additionally supported by the other languages exposing it.

Descendants

 * East Semitic:
 * Central Semitic:
 * Northwest Semitic:
 * Emarite:
 * , notably absolute state ,
 * , an unclassical form blended from
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * , also,  mixed with
 * , after Greek
 * , notably absolute state ,
 * , an unclassical form blended from
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * , also,  mixed with
 * , after Greek
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * , also,  mixed with
 * , after Greek
 * , also,  mixed with
 * , after Greek