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PS
*bin-(a)t- - daughter
(Kogan 2014: 89, Kogan 2015: 398)
PS (Kogan 2014) or PWS (Kogan 2015)?
Akkadian reflexes of *bin- (binu, bintu and bunu, buntu in AHw. 127, 138) are so marginal that make one suspect a WS import (Kogan 2011: 235).
Lower-level reconstructions
PArm
*bir-t-
- daughter
(Kogan 2015: 398)
Proto-MSA
*bir-t-
- daughter
(Kogan 2015: 578)
Words
Akkadian
bintu, bittu, biˀtu
- daughter
(CAD B 238, AHw. 127, 1548)
Ugaritic
bt
- daughter
(DUL 244)
Phoenician
bt
- daughter
(DNWSI 171)
Hebrew
bat
- daughter
(HALOT 165)
Ammonite
bt
- daughter
(DNWSI 171)
Samalian
bnt
- daughters
(DNWSI 193)
Official Aramaic
brh
- daughter
(DNWSI 193)
Arabic
bint-
- daughter
(Lane 262)
Sabaic
bnt
- daughter
(SD 29)
Minaean
bnt
- daughter
(LM 21)
Qatabanian
bnt
- daughter
(LIQ 28–29)
Geez
bənt-a ˁayn
- pupil of the eye
(CDG 99)
with a widely attested semantic shift (Militarev/Kogan 2003: 293–295; for a peculiar parallel in Amh. yä-ayn bərät see Kogan 2003: 127–128)