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hɨrɨgʷɨv n. baboon babouin (6 groups, 16 languages) B
This root is quite difficult to reconstruct. The initial *h is retained only in Mbuko and Moloko, which are neighbours. The *r has changed to *l as expected in the languages of the North sub-branch and the Daba group. The *gʷ has the unestablished reflexes *kʷ in Proto-Mandara and Ouldeme, *ʔʷ in an intermediate form leading to Proto-Maroua, and *hʷ in Proto-Daba, Proto-Mofu and the forms leading to Proto-Tera and Proto-Gidar. In these last two groups, the resulting *h component has been lost and the labialisation reanalysed as the labialisation prosody, resulting in back vowels. This is a common sporadic process. In some Mofu group languages, there has been metathesis of the *l and *hʷ (from *gʷ). The labialisation component of the original *gʷ has also become the labialisation prosody in Proto-Daba, Proto-Hurza and Proto-Maroua. The final *v has become *f in Mbudum and Proto-Maroua, which is an unestablished change. There is no reflex of *v in Malgwa, which would be unusual, implying that the Malgwa word is a chance similarity.

1Proto-Daba *lahav ʷ baboon babouin 1.1) Mbudum (Ndokobaï) lahaf baboon babouin 1.2) Daba (Lienhard) lòhòv le cynoc[ephale, le babouin

2Proto-Tera *ruf baboon babouin 2.1) Tera (Newman) ruf baboon

3Proto-Hurza *hɨrgav ʷ baboon babouin 3.1) Mbuko (Gravina) hərgov baboon babouin

4Proto-Mandara *lɨkʷɨva baboon babouin 4.1) Malgwa (Löhr) nagula, lagula baboon 4.2) Glavda (Nghagyiva) lúkùva baboon

5Proto-Mofu *hɨlɨgʷɨv baboon babouin 5.1) Ouldeme (Kinnaird) ālkùv baboon babouin ; cynocéphale 5.2) Muyang (Smith) ɑluɡuv baboon babouin 5.3) Moloko (Friesen) hərgov monkey singe(noir, gros) 5.4) Zulgo (Haller) àlùv babouin m. 5.5) Gemzek (Sabatai) hulov baboon babouin 5.6) Merey (Gravina) wuluv baboon babouin 5.7) Mofu-Gudur (Hollingsworth) lagʷav Babouin

6Proto-Maroua *ləʔɨf ʷ baboon babouin 6.1) Giziga Moutourwa (Michielan) luʼuf singe noir de la montagne, babouin 6.2) Giziga Marva (Hamidou) alʼof monkey singe

7Proto-Gidar *lava ʷ baboon babouin 7.1) Gidar (Schuh) lovo, o babouin
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