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.

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.