Reconstruction:Proto-Semitic/lV-

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬 and.

Preposition

 * 1) for, to

Reconstruction notes
Though this entry is notated with the symbol for an unspecified vowel, ⟨V⟩, in this case it does not mean the vowel is indeterminate. Rather, both and  existed in opposition and became conflated to various degrees in the descendants, such that it is most parsimonious to unify them under one headword. The same is the case for.

Descendants

 * East Semitic:
 * West Semitic:
 * Central Semitic:
 * , before pronominal suffixes, with other distributions in dialects
 * Northwest Semitic:
 * Canaanite:
 * Old South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * and fused in
 * ,, fused in
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Canaanite:
 * Old South Arabian:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * and fused in
 * ,, fused in
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Modern South Arabian:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * and fused in
 * ,, fused in
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * Ethiopian Semitic:
 * North Ethiopian Semitic:
 * and fused in
 * ,, fused in
 * South Ethiopian Semitic:
 * and fused in
 * ,, fused in
 * South Ethiopian Semitic: