Afroasiatic etymology : Query result

Proto-Afro-Asiatic: *ʕayVn-

Meaning: eye

Borean etymology: Borean etymology

Semitic: *ʕayn- 'eye'

Egyptian: ʕn, ʕyn 'eye' (a)

Western Chadic: *ʔayVn- 'to see'

East Chadic: cf. Jegu ʔinn- 'to know'

Saho-Afar: *Hin-t- 'eyes' (pl.) (?)

Omotic: *Han- 'eye'

Notes: Denominative verbs in Brb *HVnVy 'see' (Ghat Ahg ǝni, Ayr ǝnǝy, Adghaq ǝnhi, Izd inni); WCh *ʕVyan- 'see' (Bol ʔinn, Paa ḥan, Klr riyan, DB yen) and CCh *ʔan- 'see, find' (Gaa ànnì, Grk anana) and Dah ʕeen-aad_ 'see from afar'? Cf. EDE I 125-6, where this root is confused with Afras. *ʔi(n)ṭ- 'eye' (395).