Number: 1204
Proto-Semitic: *ʔamm-at-
Meaning: elbow, forearm
Akkadian: ammatu 'elbow, forearm; cubit' OA, OB on [CAD a2 70], [AHw 44]
Eblaitic: a-ma-tum /ʔammatum/ [Fr 149; Kr 20; Bl E No. 1]
Ugaritic: ʔamt 'codo' [DLU 36]
Hebrew: ʔammā 'cubit' [KB 61] (the meaning 'forearm' in conjectures only)
Aramaic: OFF PLM NBT ʔmh do. [HJ 69-70]
Biblical Aramaic: pl. ʔammīn 'Elle' [KB deutsch 1667]
Judaic Aramaic: ʔammǝtā 'cubit; membrum virile' [Ja 79]; ʔmh, det. ʔmth 'cubit' [Sok 61]
Syrian Aramaic: ʔammǝtā 'cubitus' [Brock 24]
Mandaic Aramaic: ama 'ell, forearm' [DM 21]
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB ʔmt (pl. ʔmm, ʔmn) 'cubit' [SD 5]; MIN ʔmt 'coudée' [LM 5]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʔ1mmat || ||
Tigre: ʔammät 'forearm, cubit' [LH 355]
Amharic: (?) amät 'cubit' [K 1132] (< GEZ acc. to [LGz 26])
Notes: Also 'cubit'.
Cf. SOQ ʔamt 'coté' [LS 65], 'tout le côté du corps (demi-corps)' [SSL LS 1450], semantically problematic; Leslau [LGz 26] quotes SOQ ʔemeh as 'cubit' unattested, however, either in [LS] or other sources available.
[Fron 48]: (*ʔamm-at- /GEZ,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK/); [DRS 23]: AKK, UGR, HBR, ARM, SAB, GEZ, TGR, TNA; [LGz 26]: GEZ, AKK, UGR, HBR, ESA, ARM, SOQ (ʔemeh); [KB 61]: HBR, ARM, ARB, UGR, AKK, GEZ; [Holma 115]: AKK, HBR, SYR, GEZ
