# \*tmm '(to be) completed' 1, 'to last, remain' 2

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on.

- Author's gloss: to be complete, whole; to complete, finish
- SED semet 1083
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/t/1052_to_be_completed_1_to_last_remain_2.md

## In Linear A

- [TU-ME-I](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU-ME-I/index.md>) (tummī): my wholeness, my completeness (noun \*tumm- + 1cs -ī)

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: tam-mim (HALOT 1742); da-da-mu /dad(a)mu/ (= Sum. gù-kin) (VE 222; Civil 2017, 98–99); Civil 2017, 125 also reads VE 42 da-ma-du, cf. 1164 (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: tmm 2 (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: tm (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: tm; tmm (T 342); tm (B 429) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: tmm (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.3 no. 33) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: pa. tammem (gloss withheld)
- Punic: btm, N.Pu. btm (T 340); Neo-Punic ḥtm 1 (Krahmalkov 493); N.Pu. tmt, in htmt 1 (T 343); tm (DNWSI 1217) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: tmym (DNWSI 1220) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: tmm 'to be complete, accomplished' (Lane 315)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic tm 2; Dadanitic tm 1 (Al-Jallad 2026, 153) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab tmm (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.3 no. 33; Sabaweb lemma 8544) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: tǝmm; tǝmūm (Rubin 2018 135, 236) (gloss withheld)

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