Words that come from Proto-Afroasiatic “ʔab-”

186 words across 76 languages descend from Proto-Afroasiatic ʔab- — including Abbott, abbot, abbess, abbé, abbacy, abbatial, abbotship, archabbot.

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English (17)

Italian (12)

Latin (8)

Esperanto (7)

Middle English (7)

Irish (6)

Armenian (6)

Portuguese (6)

French (5)

Old French (5)

Spanish (5)

Catalan (4)

Old Irish (4)

Scottish Gaelic (4)

Late Latin (4)

Breton (3)

Czech (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Norman (3)

Old English (3)

Ecclesiastical Latin (3)

Ancient Greek (2)

Middle French (2)

Arabic (2)

Hiligaynon (2)

Welsh (2)

Galician (2)

Novial (2)

Greek (2)

Telugu (2)

Old Norse (2)

Occitan (2)

Old Spanish (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Aramaic (1)

Slovak (1)

Indonesian (1)

Hebrew (1)

Cornish (1)

Dutch (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Basque (1)

Russian (1)

Icelandic (1)

Faroese (1)

Ammonite (1)

Moabite (1)

Phoenician (1)

Ugaritic (1)

Amharic (1)

Tigrinya (1)

Classical Syriac (1)

Chinese (1)

Gothic (1)

Translingual (1)

Ge'ez (1)

Tigre (1)

Old East Slavic (1)

Tagalog (1)

Hausa (1)

Edomite (1)

Polish (1)

Manx (1)

Crimean Tatar (1)

Danish (1)

Old Armenian (1)

Albanian (1)

Gullah (1)

Romanian (1)

Malay (1)

Swahili (1)

Chichewa (1)

Urdu (1)

Proto-Semitic (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old High German (1)

Words from Proto-Afroasiatic ʔab- — 186 descendants | Etymology Explorer