summary borrowing replacement ear post query whether term ear ever borrow least replace neologism here summary response grateful again acknowledge print occasion present earlier summary contain relevant discussion same topic benjus wald ibenawj mvs oac ucla edu report bantu nearuniversal word ear root however sabakus kenyan coastal bantu e g swahilus pokomo mijus kenda word sikilo e g swahil sikio base root sikil hear e g swahilus sikium hear final o bantu nominaliser most widespread bantu word hear relate sikil morpheme gu thus most bantu root ear hear relate note cushitic language derive ear hear somalus deg ear degeyso hear suspect sabakus bantu construction ear through contact probably cushitic add example replacement within afro asiatic cushitic part since clearly word relate example semitic word hebrew ozen etc amr bruce connell connellb vax ox ac uk report accord wilkin david part person natural tendency semantic change search cognate cognitive anthropology research group max planck institute psycholinguistic work paper semantic shift ear head attest bantu language unspecify guthrie ultimate source b dravidian earr shift ear again language unspecify burrow emaneau ultimate source independently e extra linguist ically laurent sagart argue baus minority language china believe whose genetic affiliation controversial borrow word ear chinese universally accept likewise article gregersen assume without detail discussion vietnamese word ear borrow austronesian while appear generally accept either presumably least indicate word question reflex mon khmer prototype hence replacement yet check finally realize forget along namely many indo aryan language sanskrit down word ear clearly indo european word ear hence particularly clear example replacement thus still example ear borrow consider establish beyond reasonable doubt appreciate reference addition omit follow response earlier summary response general query borrow body part term h y wolf stud let ruu nl henk wolf dutch neus nose west frisian become alternative native noa breuker p et al foar de taalspegel koart oersjoch fan holl anske ynsl upsel yn frysk ljouwert afuk 