The Origin of *s3 in the Ḥaḍramitic and Modern South Arabian Third Person Feminine Personal Pronouns

Suchard, B.D. (2017)

Article / Letter to editor

The Modern South Arabian third person feminine pronouns show an unexpected reflex s for Proto-Semitic *s¹. This s is argued to be the regular outcome of *s³ = *^ts, which replaced *s¹ = *s in these forms due to phonological reanalysis in constructions like *malkat sī’ ‘she is a queen’ → *malkat ^tsī’. In Ḥaḍramitic, these feminine pronouns also reflect *s³, but their relation to the Modern South Arabian forms remains unclear.

• All authors: Suchard, B.D.
• Date: 2017
• Journal: Journal of Semitic Studies
• Volume: 62
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 69 - 76
• DOI: doi:10.1093/jss/fgw061
• Link: https://academic.oup.com/jss/article/3052641/The