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▪ Bergsträsser1928: Akk abu, Hbr ʔāḇ, Aram ʔaḇā, Gz ‎‎ʔab ‘father’
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2: Akk abu, Ug ʔab, Phn ʔb, Pun ʔb, Hbr ‎‎ʔāb, Aram ʔab, (Syr) ʔabbā, SAr ʔb, Gz ʔab, Ar ʔab(ū). Outside Sem: Berb *ʔab(b)‑ , CCh *ʔab‑ , Eg 3b.t ʻfamilyʼ (OK), ‎ʻparentsʼ (n) (which »may well be a derivative of an initial word for ʻfatherʼ").

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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2: The word and its Sem cognates go back to Sem *ʔab‑ ‎ʻfatherʼ. The Berb, CCh and Eg cognates suggest that the common ancestor of all is an AfrAs *ʔab‑ ʻfatherʼ.

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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) In Western langs, several words and many personal names go back to Ar ʔab or its Hbr or Aram cognates.
▪ Directly from Ar ʔabū (bound form of ʔab ‘father’, also in the sense of ‘source’) are: baobab, from NAfrAr bū ḥibāb ‘tree (lit., father) of many seeds’; borage, prob. from Ar bū ʕaraq, short for ʔabū ʕaraq ‘father of sweat’; bwana, ultimately from Ar ʔabūnā ‘our father’; pataca, from Ar ʔabū ṭāqaẗ, lit. ‘father of the window’, a type of coin.
▪ From Aram ʔabbā ‘the father, my father’ (def. of ʔab) are Engl abba, abbacy, abbatial, abbé, abbess, abbey, and abbot.
▪ All Engl personal names that contain a ‘father’ element are from the Bible and thus of Hbr origin:

With no suffixes, Hbr ʔāb (or reduced or dialectal forms) is in Abraham (Hbr ʔabrāhām ‘the [divine] father is exalted’), Job (Hbr ʔiyyôb, perh. from an early NWSem dialectal name meaning ‘Where is the father?’, from dialectal ʔôb, akin to Hbr ʔāb),¹ Joab (Hbr yôʔāb ‘Yahweh is father’; for Yahweh cf. ↗√HWY), and Ahab (Hbr ʔaḥʔāb ‘father’s brother’; for Hbr ʔaḥ cf. Ar ↗ʔaḫ(ū) ‘brother’.
With the 1sg.poss.suff. ‑ī, ʔăbî, the Hbr ʔāb is contained (in reduced/shortened forms) in Abigail (Hbr ʔăbîgayil ‘my father is joy’; ?cf. Ar ↗ǧīl) and Absalom (Hbr ʔabšālōm, short for ʔăbîšālōm ‘my father peace’; for Hbr šālōm cf. Ar ↗salām ‘peace’).

1. Alternatively, ʔiyyôb may be akin to Hbr ʔōyēb ‘enemy’, cf. √ʔYB.

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