Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/ṯalāṯ-

Etymology
Perhaps cognate with 🇨🇬, as are and.

Numeral

 * 1) three

Reconstruction notes
Lipiński reconstructs *śalāṯ- to account for the Ethiopian Semitic and Modern South Arabian forms, and posits that the other Semitic languages underwent regressive assimilation of the first radical, but unless this variation was present at the level of Proto-Semitic, it is more parsimonious to assume that those languages underwent dissimilation instead.

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.

Derived terms

 * *ṯalāṯ-um
 * East Semitic:
 * West Semitic:
 * Central Semitic:
 * Proto-Northwest Semitic: *ṯalāṯum
 * Old
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōš
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * , śaʕṯayt
 * *ṯalāṯ-at-um
 * East Semitic:
 * West Semitic:
 * Central Semitic
 * Proto-Northwest Semitic: *ṯalāṯatum
 * Old
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * , śaʕṯayt
 * *ṯalāṯ-at-um
 * East Semitic:
 * West Semitic:
 * Central Semitic
 * Proto-Northwest Semitic: *ṯalāṯatum
 * Old
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * , śaʕṯayt
 * *ṯalāṯ-at-um
 * East Semitic:
 * West Semitic:
 * Central Semitic
 * Proto-Northwest Semitic: *ṯalāṯatum
 * Old
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Proto-Northwest Semitic: *ṯalāṯatum
 * Old
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Proto-Canaanite: *šalōšat
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian: