Number: 967
Proto-Semitic: *mw/yt
Meaning: to die
Akkadian: mâtu (Ass muātu) OAkk on [CAD M 421], [AHw 634]
Ugaritic: mt [Aist 197]
Canaanite: AMARNA ti-mi-tu-na-nu 'you make us die' (impf.caus.suff.) [HJ 605], AMM ymtn (impf.3 pl.m.) [ibid.], PHO mt [T 204]
Hebrew: mwt [KB 562]
Aramaic: SAM OLD OFF NAB PLM HTR mwt/myt [HJ 605-6], BIB mōt 'Tod' [KB deutsch 1734]
Judaic Aramaic: mwt, myt [Ja 780]; [Sok 297]
Syrian Aramaic: mīt [Brock 378]
Mandaic Aramaic: MUT [DM 263]
Arabic: mwt [BK 2 1165]
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB mwt [SD 89]
Geʕez (Ethiopian): mōta
Tigre: motä [LH 134]
Tigrai (Tigriñña): motä [Bass 100]
Amharic: motä [K 304]
East Ethiopic: HAR mōta [LH 114], SEL mōtä, WOL motä, ZWY mūtä [LGur 435]
Gurage: SOD motä, GYE mōtä, CHA EZHA MUH MAS GOG mʷätä, END ENN mōdä [ibid.]
Mehri: mōt [JM 275]
Jibbali: emyét 'to put to death' [JJ 176]; mít 'death' [ibid.]
Harsusi: mōt
Soqotri: mī 'mort' [LS 237].
Looks like a "pseudo-correction", with *-t understood as a feminine marker and the word "corrected" into masculine, possibly due to some mythological association
Notes: Usually reconstructed as *mwt; -y-, however, is clearly represented in part of ARM and MSA and therefore cannot be disregarded.
[Fr 38]: *mawit- 'morto', mawt- 'morte' (GEZ, ARB, SYR, HBR, UGR, GEZ) ; [KB 562]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, SAB, GEZ, TGR, AKK; [LGz 375]: HBR, UGR, ARM, ARB, SAB, GEZ, AKK, MHR
