Proto-Semitic root

*ḳVwVm-

‘stand (up), rise’

di Mino’s gloss: to stand, rise; establish

Record 1134 ↗ · SED semet 1178 · Basis: SED

In Linear A3 entries

MA-KA-I-SEMakī-sepersonal name: Makī with the Zakros -SESpeculativeSemitic1 MA-KA-I-TAMakītpersonal name (f.), the feminine of Makī (MA-KA-I-SE)SpeculativeSemitic23D QA-MI-*47-NA-RAqāmī šū-nārapersonal name, 'who stands: He is fire'SpeculativeSemitic13D

Notes

Akkadian qāmu is from Canaanite (LGz. 456). SED’s Akkadian ḳamām- ‘stand up straight (of hair), stand on end’ is cited from AHw through LGz., which does not print it; CAD Q 76 has qamâmu (kamâmu) ‘to dress hair’, lexical texts only, cf. qimmatu ‘hair of the head’.

Reflexes19 languages

East Semitic1

Eblaitic/q-w-m/: names a-gú-mu, gú-um/qām, qawm/: cf. names a-du-ga-mu, a-ḫu-kam₄, ga-ma-bí (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 361–362)gloss withheld

Northwest Semitic9

Mandaic AramaicQUM (MD 407)
Ugariticḳm (DULAT 692)gloss withheld
Biblical Aramaicḳwm (CAL s.v. qwm)
Hebrewḳwm (HALOT 1086)gloss withheld
Syrian Aramaicḳwm (Payne Smith 494)
AramaicPal ḳwm (DJPA 479b apud CAL)
Punicqm ‘persist’Anderson–Moser 2024 root qwm
Amoriteqwm: jaqūm, qāma, qāmum, jāqīm (Gelb AS 21, 29)maqīm, taqūm, yaqīm, taqīm (Buck 2019, 331)q-w-m: ia-kum, ia-ku-ú-um, ia-qum-ba-liqām, qawm: qa-ma-da-num, ga-mi-DINGIR, ga-mu-ᵈIM (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 361–362)gloss withheld
Phoenicianqwm (B 404)gloss withheld

Arabic2

Arabicḳwm [-u-]
Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾqm (Al-Jallad 2026, 115)gloss withheld

Epigraphic South Arabian1

Epigraphic South Arabianḳwm (Sabaweb lemma 1938)gloss withheld

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian6

Geezḳwmgloss withheld
GurageSod ḳomäm, Cha ḳʷämäm
Amharicḳomä (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.3 no. 79)
Gafatḳomä (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.3 no. 79)
Argobbaḳoma, oma
Tigrinyaḳomä (Kogan 2015, ch. 7 §2.3 no. 79)

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.