Semitic etymology : Query result

Number: 967

Proto-Semitic: *mw/yt

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: to die

Akkadian: mâtu (Ass muātu) OAkk on [CAD M 421], [AHw 634]

Ugaritic: mt [Aist 197]

Canaanite: AMARNA ti-mi-tu-na-nu 'you make us die' (impf.caus.suff.) [HJ 605], AMM ymtn (impf.3 pl.m.) [ibid.], PHO mt [T 204]

Hebrew: mwt [KB 562]

Aramaic: SAM OLD OFF NAB PLM HTR mwt/myt [HJ 605-6], BIB mōt 'Tod' [KB deutsch 1734]

Judaic Aramaic: mwt, myt [Ja 780]; [Sok 297]

Syrian Aramaic: mīt [Brock 378]

Mandaic Aramaic: MUT [DM 263]

Arabic: mwt [BK 2 1165]

Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB mwt [SD 89]

Geʕez (Ethiopian): mōta

Tigre: motä [LH 134]

Tigrai (Tigriñña): motä [Bass 100]

Amharic: motä [K 304]

East Ethiopic: HAR mōta [LH 114], SEL mōtä, WOL motä, ZWY mūtä [LGur 435]

Gurage: SOD motä, GYE mōtä, CHA EZHA MUH MAS GOG mʷätä, END ENN mōdä [ibid.]

Mehri: mōt [JM 275]

Jibbali: emyét 'to put to death' [JJ 176]; mít 'death' [ibid.]

Harsusi: mōt

Soqotri: mī 'mort' [LS 237].

Looks like a "pseudo-correction", with *-t understood as a feminine marker and the word "corrected" into masculine, possibly due to some mythological association

Notes: Usually reconstructed as *mwt; -y-, however, is clearly represented in part of ARM and MSA and therefore cannot be disregarded.

[Fr 38]: *mawit- 'morto', mawt- 'morte' (GEZ, ARB, SYR, HBR, UGR, GEZ) ; [KB 562]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, SAB, GEZ, TGR, AKK; [LGz 375]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, SAB, GEZ, AKK, MHR

Number: 968

Proto-Semitic: *marih-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'weak, suffering pain'

Arabic: marih- 'faible, abattu'; m. ʔal-fuʔād- 'qui éprouve une paine du coeur' BK 2 1096

Notes: A deverbal participle in Arb.

Number: 969

Proto-Semitic: *kVbur-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be big, be thick'

Akkadian: kabāru

Syrian Aramaic: kbr 'multus fuit' Br 316

Arabic: kbr [-u-]; kabīr- 'big'

Modern Arabic: Leb kbeyr, Mec kabiyr, Malt kbīr 'big'

Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab kbr 'great;richness, abundance' SD

Notes: Secondary *-u-?

Number: 970

Proto-Semitic: *wVba/uṭ-

Meaning: 'be weak'

Arabic: w/ybṭ a/u,1

Number: 971

Proto-Semitic: *ḫa/uwar-

Meaning: 'be weak'

Arabic: ḫwr a/u,4,18

Number: 972

Proto-Semitic: *ʕVga/iz-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be unable, weak'

Arabic: ʕgz [-a-, -i-]

Mehri: ʔagōz

Harsusi: ʔagōz 2

Number: 973

Proto-Semitic: *ʕanaʔ/y-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be tired'

Arabic: ʕnʔ/y a,8

Number: 974

Proto-Semitic: *kud-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'work (hard), be tired'

Arabic: kdd [-u-]

Number: 975

Proto-Semitic: *lVɣab-/*lVɣub-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be exhausted'

Arabic: lɣb [-a-, -u-]

Number: 976

Proto-Semitic: *tVʕab-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be tired'

Arabic: tʕb [-a-]

Number: 977

Proto-Semitic: *wagaʕ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be tired' 1, 'suffer' 2

Hebrew: ygʕ

Arabic: wgʕ a,4

Number: 978

Proto-Semitic: *lVʔay-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be tired' 1, 'be slow' 2

Hebrew: lʔy 1

Arabic: lʔy [-a-] 2

Notes: Cf. also Akk laʔv 'weak (?)' (in context with šerru 'baby'). Sem verb is based on biconsonantal *lVʔ-.

Number: 979

Proto-Semitic: *ɣarb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: sunset

Akkadian: ereb- (erb-) 'setting of the sun, west OB on CAD E 258

Ugaritic: ʕrb 'ocaso, puesta del sol' DLU 88

Phoenician: ʕrb

Hebrew: ʕrb 'set (sun)', ʕärä̆b 'evening, sunset'

Syrian Aramaic: ʕǝreb

Mandaic Aramaic: arb

Arabic: ɣrb 'set (sun)', ɣarb- 'coucher du soleil' BK 2 450

Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab m-ʕrb 'west'

Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʕarab 'west, sunset', ʕarba 'set (sun), become evening' LGz 69

Tigrai (Tigriñña): ʕaräbä 'set (sun, moon)'

Harari: artu, ōrtu 'night' either < Cu, or <ʕrb 'with disappearance of b" LHar 32

East Ethiopic: Sel arōt, Wol arot 'night', Zw arūt 'evening'

Gurage: M yorar 'evening'

Mehri: ǝɣtǝrōb ' to be abroad', ɣǝrbēt 'strange place, unknown place, abroad', mārēb 'sunset; west'

Jibbali: oɣórb 'to go west', aɣtéréb 'to be abroad, away from home', muɣrúb 'evening, west' JJ 88; E maʕréb 'sunset; west' JM

Harsusi: ɣarb

Soqotri: máʕrib 'soir' LS 326

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