Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ḫamš-

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬).

Numeral

 * 1) five

Usage notes
This number exhibited chiastic concord (gender polarity), in which masculine forms were used to agree with feminine nouns, and feminine forms with masculine nouns.

Reconstruction notes
Huehnergard reconstructs *ḫamiš- following the Akkadian vowels, which would then have undergone syncope to *ḫamš- per Steiner.

Descendants

 * East Semitic:
 * West Semiitc:
 * Central Semitic:
 * Northwest Semitic
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Canaanite:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * South Ethiopian Semitic: