Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ʔaḥad-

Adjective

 * 1) one, single, only

Usage notes

 * Various reconstructions proposed, e.g..
 * Often claimed to mean "one", but Wilson-Wright (2014) provides evidence to suggest that it was not at all used as a cardinal numeral in Proto-Semitic but rather supplanted earlier as a cardinal numeral in West Semitic languages, mostly losing its adjectival sense.

Descendants

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 * Northwest Semitic:
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
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