Semitic etymology : Query result

Number: 1220

Proto-Semitic: *yāšiš-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'old'

Hebrew: yāšēš

Number: 1221

Proto-Semitic: *ṭVḥ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'throw'

Hebrew: tḥḥ

Number: 1222

Proto-Semitic: *rVb-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'throw'

Hebrew: rbb

Number: 1223

Proto-Semitic: *rVmaḥ-

Meaning: 'strike (with a spear)'

Arabic: rmḥ a,1

Number: 1224

Proto-Semitic: *bVraʔ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'create'

Hebrew: brʔ

Aramaic: bǝrā

Mandaic Aramaic: bra

Arabic: brʔ [-a-]

Number: 1225

Proto-Semitic: *gVhad-

Meaning: 'work'

Arabic: ghd a,1

Number: 1226

Proto-Semitic: *ḫVšul-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'despise'

Arabic: ḫsl u,1

Number: 1227

Proto-Semitic: *yVbVš-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be dry'

Hebrew: ybš

Arabic: ybs

Epigraphic South Arabian: ybs

Geʕez (Ethiopian): ybs

Number: 1228

Proto-Semitic: *ṣVḥ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be dry'

Hebrew: ṣḥh

Aramaic: (Palest) ṣḥʔ

Judaic Aramaic: ṣḥʔ

Notes: Derivatives in C3 = y, ʔ based on the original biconsonantal structure *ṣVḥ-

Number: 1229

Proto-Semitic: *kuz-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be dry'

Arabic: kzz [-u-]

Number: 1230

Proto-Semitic: *ḥVšub-

Meaning: 'count, think'

Hebrew: ḥsb

Syrian Aramaic: ḥsb

Arabic: ḥsb [-u-]

Geʕez (Ethiopian): ḥsb

Harsusi: ḥesōb

Number: 1231

Proto-Semitic: *ḥaṣy-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'number'

Arabic: ḥaṣy-

Notes: Deverbative noun

Number: 1232

Proto-Semitic: *ʕud-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'count'

Arabic: ʕdd [-u-]

Mehri: ʔed

Harsusi: ʔadōd

Number: 1233

Proto-Semitic: *sVway-

Meaning: 'cost' (v.)

Arabic: swy [-a-]

Number: 1234

Proto-Semitic: *h_Vŝun-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be hard'

Arabic: h_sn [-u-]

Notes: Assimilation of vowels in *h_aŝan-

Number: 1235

Proto-Semitic: *gišm-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: body

Biblical Aramaic: *gǝšēm (gišm- sg. suff., gešm- pl.suff.) [KB deutsch 1688]

Judaic Aramaic: gišmā, gušmā 'body, substance' [Ja 228, 274]; gšm 'body' [Sok 137], gwšmh 'body' [ibid. 125]

Syrian Aramaic: gušmā (constr. gǝšōm) 'corpus' [Brock 136]

Modern Aramaic: NASS güsmä 'body' [Tser 051]

Mandaic Aramaic: gišma, gušma 'body, person' [DM 92]

Arabic: ǧism- 'corps' [BK 1 294]

Amharic: ARG ǧism 'body' [LGur 319]

East Ethiopic: SEL ǧism, WOL ǧismä do. [ibid.]

Gurage: CHA EŽA MUH ǧisma, END ǧismä, GYE ǧisǝma, g'isǝma, MSQ ǧǝsm, GOG ǧǝsma, ENN g'isǝma do. [ibid.]

Mehri: gǝsēm 'body' [JM 126]

Jibbali: gɛ́sm 'body' [JJ 79]

Soqotri: gešómoh, pl. gišemiten 'femme'; múgšem 'garcon, fils' [LS 117]

Notes: While MSA (MHR and JIB) examples with -s- (instead of the expected -h- and -š-) may be Arabisms, those with š in SOQ are rather inherited MSA and SEM forms; of the presumed semantic shifts in SOQ, 'woman, wife' from 'body' is difficult, whereas 'boy, son' from 'body' is well attested in SEM, cf. AKK bišru 'small child' vs. *biŝr-/*baŝar- 'flesh with skin, (human) body' (No. ) and more examples in Introduction. As for the S. ETH examples, which are all Arabisms according to [LGur 319], Leslau's main (not verbalized) argument for this assertion seems to be -ǧ- instead of the expected -g-. However, this author admits ǧ "rarely" < *g in the presence of a front vowel [ibid. LVIII]; one wonders whether SEM *gišm- > S. ETH *ǧism- may be the case.

Note HAḌ gs₁m 'bâtir en construction massive' [Avanzini 263]; a meaning shift from 'body'?

[DRS 196]: ARM, ARB, ESA, MSA, ETH; [LS 117]: SOQ, ARB; [Brock 136]: SYR, ARM, ARB

Number: 1236

Proto-Semitic: *ʔVbVd-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'lose, be lost'

Ugaritic: ʔbd

Phoenician: yʔbd

Hebrew: ʔbd

Aramaic: (Epigr) ʔbd, (Palest) ʔ.bad

Mandaic Aramaic: abad

Number: 1237

Proto-Semitic: *ḫa/ušar-

Meaning: 'lose'

Arabic: ḫsr a,1,3,17

Number: 1238

Proto-Semitic: *riḳ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'be thin' 1, 'be shallow' 2

Akkadian: raqāqu 1

Arabic: rqq [-i-] 1

Geʕez (Ethiopian): rqq 1

Mehri: req 2

Jibbali: reḳḳ 2

Harsusi: req 2

Number: 1239

Proto-Semitic: *ṭurḥ-

Afroasiatic etymology: Afroasiatic etymology

Meaning: 'burden (n.)'

Hebrew: ṭōraḥ HAL 379

Judaic Aramaic: ṭurḥā