Reconstruction talk:Proto-Afro-Asiatic/ŝam-

RFD discussion: April–May 2019
Here we have another problematic PAA entry; it has a reference, though not to a specialist work (nor a reliable one). The Egyptian probably doesn't belong (see the entry), and the Chadic is based on a single language (note that the Proto-Chadic for "sun" is a very different word, but many Chadic languages seem to have borrowed a lot of vocabulary; though Ngas is claimed as representing West Chadic, Hausa has yet another word for "sun" that is unrelated to both the Ngas and the Proto-Chadic words). That leaves us with Proto-Berber for "lightning" (perhaps knows if it's right) and Proto-Semitic for "sun", which is a fairly poor semantic match to support a reconstruction. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:18, 11 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The Egyptian certainly doesn’t belong; it comes from an earlier form, whose intial consonant can’t correspond to those of the suggested comparanda. (Thus also listed as erroneous in Satzinger 2007, “An Egyptologist’s perusal of the Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary of Orel and Stolbova”.) I’ll go ahead and remove it. — Vorziblix (talk · contribs) 00:48, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete, too little. Fay Freak (talk) 04:51, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:47, 9 May 2019 (UTC)


 * RFD failed. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:24, 21 May 2019 (UTC)