Number: 1217
Proto-Semitic: *wVšVn- 1, ~ *ši/un(-at)- 'sleep, dream' 2
Meaning: to sleep 1, ' ~ 'sleep, dream' 2
Akkadian: šittu (<*šintu) 'sleep (n.)' OB, SB [CAD š 3 140], [AHw 1252]; also šuttu (<*šuntu) 'dream (n.)' OA, OB on [CAD š3 405], [AHw 1292-1293]
Eblaitic: si-tum, šit-t-um (sic!) [KB deutsch 1479] (apud Fronzaroli)
Ugaritic: yšn [Aist 137-138], šnt 'Schlaf' [ibid.]
Hebrew: yšn (ḳal) [KB 447], šēnā 'Schlaf' [KB deutsch 997]
Aramaic: BIB suff. šint- 'Schlaf' [KB deutsch 1794], SAMAL šnh do. [HJ 1155]
Judaic Aramaic: šēntā, šēnā, šintā; šǝnā (šäntā) 'sleep' (n.) [Ja 1564], [Sok 560]
Syrian Aramaic: šentā 'somnus' [Brock 789]
Mandaic Aramaic: šinta 'sleep' [DM 462]
Arabic: wsn 'être endormi d'un profond sommeil; être dans son premier somme; sommeiller' [BK 1 1538], sinat-, wasnat-, wasanat- 'envie de dormir, somnolence; sommeil profond; premier somme', wasan- 'sommeil profond' [ibid. 1539]
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB s1nt 'sleep' [SD 163]
Mehri: šǝnēt 'sleep (n.)' [JM 432]
Jibbali: s̃ónút 'sleep' [JJ 293]
Harsusi: šenēt 'sleep' [JH 124]
Soqotri: šínoh 'heure de la nuit' [LS 419]; míšin 'lieu où l'on dort' [LS 252]
Notes: The verb attested only in UGR, HBR and ARB may be as well a secondary denominal formation from *šin-at- {} *sin-at- 'sleep' occuring in all SEM except ETH.
Note, however, GEZ ʔaswana 'to yawn, gape' [LGz 520], with a possible meaning shift (united by Leslau with ʔaswana 'to cause to separate, make dissolve, make urinate' with no obvious semantic connections).
[Fr 38]: *wašin- 'addormentato', *šin-at- 'sonno' (ESA, ARB, SYR, HBR, UGR, AKK); [KB 447]: HBR, AKK, ESA, ARB, SOQ (erroneously quoted as sinoh); [KB deutsch 1497]: HBR, ARM, EBL, AKK, SAB, ARB; [Brock 789]: SYR, HBR, AKK, ARB; [LS 252]: SOQ, MSA, HBR, AKK, ARB, SAB
