summary borrowings replacements ear time posted query whether term ear ever borrowed least replaced neologism summary responses grateful acknowledge print occasion presents earlier summary contained relevant discussion topic benji wald ibenawj mvs oac ucla edu reports bantu nearuniversal word ear root however sabaki kenyan coastal bantu e g swahili pokomo miji kenda word sikilo e g swahil sikio based root sikil hear e g swahili sikia hear final bantu nominaliser widespread bantu word hear related sikil morpheme gu thus bantu roots ear hear related also notes cushitic languages also derive ear hear somali deg ear degeyso hear suspects sabaki bantu construction ear came contact probably cushitic would add also gives example replacement within afro asiatic cushitic part since clearly word related example semitic word hebrew ozen etc amr bruce connell connellb vax ox ac uk reports according wilkins david 1993 part person natural tendencies semantic change search cognates cognitive anthropology research group max planck institute psycholinguistics working paper 23 semantic shift ear head attested bantu languages unspecified guthrie 196771 ultimate source b dravidian earring shifts ear languages unspecified burrow emaneau 1961 ultimate source also independently e extra linguist ically found laurent sagart argues bai minority language china believe whose genetic affiliations controversial borrowed word ear chinese universally accepted likewise found article gregersen assumes without detailed discussion vietnamese word ear borrowed austronesian appear generally accepted either presumably least indicates word question reflex mon khmer prototype hence would replacement yet checked finally realized forgetting along namely many indo aryan languages sanskrit word ear clearly indo european word ear hence particularly clear example replacement thus still example ear borrowed could considered established beyond reasonable doubt would appreciate references addition omitted following response earlier summary responses general query borrowing body part terms h wolf stud let ruu nl henk wolf dutch _ neus _ nose west frisian become alternative native _ noas _ see breuker p et al 1984 foar de taalspegel koart oersjoch fan holl anske ynsl upsels yn frysk ljouwert afuk