Etymograph

English

Enif

Enif comes from Arabic أَنْف ‘nose’, and goes back to Proto-Semitic *ʔanp-.

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ʔanp-‘nose, nostril’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentأَنْفʔanf‘nose’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1899Enif

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Semiticc. 4000–3000 BCE*ʔanp-‘nose, nostril’reconstructed
  2. Arabicc. 500–presentأَنْفʔanf‘nose’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 1899Enif

Earliest quotation: 1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings: “[Enif, Enf, and Enir, all titles for this, are…”

Every English word from Proto-Semitic *ʔanp-

Today it means

name A type-LC irregular variable supergiant, visible as a second-magnitude orange star, or telescopically as an apparent triple star, marking the nose of the horse in the northern constellation of Pegasus.

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Etymograph / Proto-Semitic *ʔanp- / Enif

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