FOLIA ORIENTALIA VOL. 57 — 2020 DOI 10.24425/for.2020.134076 Václav Blažek Masaryk University of Brno blazek@phil.muni.cz An Excerpt from the C O M P A R A T I V E AND E T Y M OL O G I C A L D I C T I O N A R Y OF B E J A: ANATOMICAL LEXICON Abstract: The present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries. This dialectological material is compared with probable or possible counterparts in other Cushitic branches and further, in the Afroasiatic perspective, with Omotic, Chadic, Berber, Egyptian and Semitic lexical data, all in agreement with historical phonology formulated in Blažek 2007. Several etymological studies devoted to thematic parts of the Beja lexi- con were already published: Fauna (Blažek 2003a), Kinship & Social terminology (Blažek 2003b), Natural Phenomena, Time and Geographical Terminology (Blažek 2005 & 2006). Key words Afroasiatic, Cushitic, Beja, anatomic terminology, etymology. The richest sources of Beja anatomical terminology are fve dictionaries: Munzinger (1864), Almkvist (1885, including older records), Reinisch (1895), Roper (1928), We- dekind (2007: Klaus & Charlotte, plus Abuzeinab Musa); further a specialized article of Bechhaus-Gerst (1989), and feld records of Hudson rewritten by Blench (1996). Lexical Data i f., acc. eet „throat“ (HuB) = eet f. „throat“, def.sg. too’i, def.pl. tee’i (Wd) = eet f., def. tee’i (Wd) = ’ɛ f. „foramen at side of throat beneath articulation of jaw“ (Rp) = ê f. „Hals, Kehle“ (Re) = teetôn „unsere Kehle“ (Se) ?Ch: (C) Gisiga, Baldamu ʔay „cou“ (SbTx), Muturua ai „Nacken, Hals“ (St), Wandala ʔiye „neck“ (Kr); JgIb II, 252-53 connect these forms with such the parallels as (W) Buli (SBauchi) iyarr; Siri (NBauchi) yere; Kulere (Ron) iyɛr