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Number: 2214
Proto-Semitic: *ŝaʕr- {} *ĉaʕr-
Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology
Meaning: hair (of body and head)
Akkadian: šārtu 'hair, hairy skin; eyebrow' OB on [CAD š1 125], [AHw 1191].

    Note a stable -ā- instead of the expected -ē- (<*-Vʕ-). Cf. šuʔru, šūru 'eyebrow' OB, SB [CAD š3 366], [AHw 1287]

Eblaitic: sa-ra-tum, šè-ra-du-um /syaʕratum/ [Fr 180; Kr 35; Bl E No. 28]
Ugaritic: šʕrt 'Wolle' [Aist 312], /šaʕartu/ [Huehner 183]
Hebrew: ŝēʕār 'hair' [KB 1344].

    Possibly an old apophonic plural *ŝiʕar- from sing. ŝiʕr-; may it be reflected in the nomen unitatis ŝaʕărā [ibid. 1345] < *ŝaʕrat- < *ŝiʕrat- (*-i- >-a- before ʕ) ?

Biblical Aramaic: ŝǝʕar (constr.) 'Haar' [KB deutsch 1786]
Judaic Aramaic: sǝʕar, sēʕār (det. saʕrā) 'hair' [Ja 1613]; sʕr [Sok 571]
Syrian Aramaic: saʕrā 'crines' [Brock 488]
Modern Aramaic: MAL saʕra 'Haare' [Berg 78] MLH ṣʕore (pl.) 'Gerste' [J Mlah 198] HRT ṣʔare 'Gerste' [J Hert 199: die sekundäre Emphatisierung'] ṣeʔra 'Liegenhaar' [J Hert 199]
Mandaic Aramaic: sara 'hair' [DM 315]
Arabic: šaʕr- 'cheveux ou poil (chez l'homme)' [BK 1 1237]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ŝǝʕǝrt 'hair of body or head' [LGz 525].

    -ǝ- of the first syllable is probably from *-a- before ʕ followed by ǝ

Harsusi: ŝōr 'hair, wool' [JH 117]
Soqotri: ŝáʕihor (pl.) 'cheveux' [LS 432] (also [SSL LS 1472]); QALAN-V ŝä́ʕihoer 'poils de chèvre longs' [SSL 4 97]
Notes: ʌ-a- in most languages; as for HBR and GEZ, see below. ETH *ṣagʷar 'hair' (see [LGz 550]) sometimes compared to this root is not related (probably a Cushitism). Note that MHR ŝɛ̄r 'straw' [JM 370], JIB ŝáʕǝr do. [JJ 244] are not explained, as it may seem at a first glance, by a semantic shift 'hair' > 'straw', but rather originate from SEM *ŝaʕ(V)r- 'barley; grass; straw' (cf. [LGz 525]); the two roots are hardly related contrary to what is often assumed, cf. [Militarev Evidence 79] [Fron 43] (*ŝaʕr-(at-) 'capelli' [Holma 3]: AKK,HBR,ARB,SYR,GEZ [KB 1344]:HBR,ARM,EBLA,UGR,AKK,ARB,GEZ [Brock 488]: SYR,ARM,ARB,HBR,AKK,GEZ [LGz 525]: GEZ,ARB,SOQ,HBR,ARM,UGR,AKK [LS 432]: SOQ,ARB,HBR,SYR,GEZ (also ṣǝgʷǝr),AKK
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