Number: 1979
Proto-Semitic: *ʔu/imm-
Meaning: 'mother'
Akkadian: umm- 'Mutter' OB [AHw 1416]
Eblaitic: /ʔummum/ [Fronz EL 151] AMOR /ʔi/ummum [Gelb CAAA 14]
Amorite: /ʔi/ummum/ [Gelb CAAA 14]
Ugaritic: um 'madre', pl. umhthm [DLU 34]
Phoenician: [Tomb. 23]
Hebrew: ʔēm 'mother (also father's wife; grandmother; ancestress)' [KB 61], pl. suff. ʔimmōhēnū, ʔimmōhām
Judaic Aramaic: ʔīmmā 'mother' [Ja 50]
Syrian Aramaic: ʔem(m)-, pl. ʔemhāt-, ʔemh- 'mater; abbatissa'; ʔemhāy- 'maternus' (adj.) [Brock 23]
Arabic: ʔumm- 'mère', pl. ʔummāt-, ʔummahāt- ("нек-рые считают, что первая форма применяется к животным, вторая - к людям") [BK 1 50]; (dual) ʔummān- 'les père et mère' [BK 1 50]
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB ʔmm 'mother' [SD 5] ʔm-t 'bondwoman, female vassal' [ibid.]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): ʔǝmm 'mother' [LGz 22]
Tigre: ʔǝm, pl. ʔǝmmat 'mother' [LH 353]
Harari: umma 'grandmother' [LHar 25]
Gurage: MAS GOG ǝmm, ENN END äm, SOD ǝmmit, GYE ämiyät 'female, mother' [LGur 42]; (all) ǝmmiyä 'big, large'
Mehri: ḥām, indef. (rare) ʔɛ̄m, hāmē, pl. ḥāmēt 'mother' [JM 5]
Jibbali: ʔum 'big'
Soqotri: ʔaʔam 'big'
