Where does “*ʔani” come from?

*ʔani (Proto-Cushitic) comes from Proto-Semitic ʔanāku, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic ˀanāku.

*ʔani (Proto-Cushitic): I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

Definitions

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

Ancestry of “*ʔani”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-SemiticʔanākuI
2Proto-Afro-Asiaticˀanāku—

Words derived from “*ʔani”

Every word from Proto-Afro-Asiatic ˀanāku →Every word from Proto-Semitic ʔanāku →
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