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Number: 90
Proto-Semitic: *dam-, *ʔa-dam-
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: blood
Akkadian: damu OA-OB on [CAD d 75], dāmu [AHw 158] 'blood'; also adamatu (and adanatu, with assimilation of m > n before d?) 'black blood' SB [CAD a1 94], [AHw 10]; adamu 'blood' (lex. Akkadogr. in Hitt.) [CAD a1 94], quoted as 'rotes Blut' as one of the meanings of adam(m)u 'rot' in [AHw 10]
Ugaritic: dm [DLU 132], /damu ?/ [Huehner 119]
Phoenician: PUN dume (sing. suff. 1st pers. sing.) [HJ 251] (highly uncertain); ʔdmy 'su parentesco, su sangre' [Fuentes 60] (cf. Augustine: "punice edom sanguis dicitur" [KB 15])
Hebrew: dām [KB 224]; ʔadmātō (hap. in Dt 32:43) 'red blood' [ibid. 15-16]
Aramaic: OLD OFF dm [HJ 251]
Judaic Aramaic: dǝmā (also 'life') [Ja 312]; ʔădām, ʔadmā, ʔidmā [ibid. 17]; ʔydmh [Sok 35]
Syrian Aramaic: dǝmā [Brock 156]
Modern Aramaic: MAL ed_ma 'Blut' [Berg 21] BAH ed_ma 'Blut' [Cor 138] TUR ädmo 'blood' [R Ṭūrōyo 113] MLH dmo 'Blut' [J Mlah 172] HRT demma 'Blut' [J Hert 185] NASS dimä 'blood' [Tser 056] ZKH dǝmma 'blood' [R Zakho 106] MMND dǝmā, edmā 'blood' [M MND 494] AZR dimma 'blood' [Garb 303] IRAN dimmâ 'il sangue' [Pen 72]
Mandaic Aramaic: dma [DM 111] (as for zma, ʕzma with the same meaning [ibid. 168], see *zam- (?), No. ); adma, ʕdma [ibid. 8, 111]
Arabic: dam- [BK 1 736]
Modern Arabic: NYEM damm [Behnstedt 387] (same form in most ARB DIAL)
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB dm [SD 36]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): dam
Tigre: däm, dämät (also 'blood-guiltiness') [LH 514]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): däm
Amharic: däm [K 1716]
Gafat: dämʷä [LGaf 196]
Harari: däm
Gurage: däm [LG 206] (quoted without specifying the dialects)
Mehri: dǝm 'pus' [JM 71]
Jibbali: dihm do. [JJ 39]
Soqotri: dīm do. [SSL 3 94]; also dem [SSL LS 1454]
Notes: *ʔadam- with the ʔa- prefix is reconstructed on the PSEM level.

    In *dam-, MSA dīm 'pus', with -i- vs. *-a- in other SEM and a different meaning, is not unquestionably related.

    [Fron 42] (*dam- /GEZ, ARB, SYR, HBR, UGR, AKK/ ); [DRS 269]: AKK, UGR, HBR, PUN, ARM, ARB, SAB, ETH (*dam-); [DRS 9]: JUD, PUN (connects with ʔdm 'to be red'); [KB 224]: HBR, UGR, ESA, ARM, ARB, GEZ, TGR, AKK (also forms with a-); [KB 15-16]: HBR, JUD, MND, PUN; [LGz 133]: GEZ, ETH, AKK, ARB, ARM, ESA, UGR, HBR; [Holma 7]: AKK (dāmu), HBR, ARB, SYR, AKK (adamatu), PHO, SYR, JUD (incl. verbs meaning 'to be red')

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