Very little evidence for borrowing:

a word has Arabic phonological and/or morphological features, but no source could be established. This may either mean lack of documentation (but Maghribine Arabic boasts very good dictionaries), or an expressive derivation from some non-identified item.

Perhaps borrowed:

I do not believe the proposed etymology, but I cannot rule it out altogether.

Probably borrowed:

I suppose it is a borrowing, but feel there are problems.

The transcription system has been adapted to the technical and scientific context of the database. The following conventions have been used:

First column: My WOLD usage

Second column: IPA

Third column: Standard linguistic transcription of Tarifiyt

Fourth column: Official Tarifiyt orthography (Lafkioui 1997)

ā a: ā ar, er, re

ā’ a:ˁ ạ̄ aṛ, eṛ, ṛe

ƀ β ḇ b

č ʧ č lt

ç ɕ ḵ k, y

d’ dˁ ḍ ḍ

đ δ ḏ d

đ’ δˁ ḏ̣ ḍ

ə ə e e

ǧǧ ʤ(:) ǧǧ ll

ħ ħ ḥ ḥ

ia ea ia ir

l’ lˁ ḷ ḷ

r ɾ r r

r’ ɾˁ ṛ ṛ

ř r ř l

š ʃ š c, k

s’ sˁ ṣ ṣ

ŧ θ ṯ ṯ

t’ tˁ ṭ ṭ

ua oa ua ur

y j y y

z’ zˁ ẓ ẓ

ž ʒ ž j

ʔ ʔ ’ ’

ʕ ʕ ɛ ɛ

Lafkioui, Mena. 1997. Propositions pour la notation usuelle à base latine du rifain. Paris: INALCO.

This field sometimes contains references to LWT meanings which contain words which belong to the same root as the word under consideration.

In this field, simple nouns have been treated as unanalyzable. As the great majority of nouns have in fact an analyzable morphological structure, it would have been possible to make a different decision.

In the Age field, I do not go beyond Common Berber; reconstructions of earlier levels (Proto-Afroasiatic) have not been taken into account. The assignment of ages to non-borrowed words has been done intuitively; if I happened to know that the word is well-attested in Berber, it was assigned to the Common Berber age (which means: possibly reconstructible into Proto-Berber), otherwise I chose "No Information". In cases where the non-borrowed word contains loan phonemes from Arabic, as is usual in expressive formations, it was of course possible to date the word in its current word form to a period when Arabic was a factor in the Maghreb, and the age "Islamic Period" was assigned.