# \*wVšVn- 1 ~ \*ši/un(-at)- 2 'to sleep' 1, 'sleep, dream' 2

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

- Author's gloss: to sleep; sleep, dream
- SED semet 1217
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/w/1167_to_sleep_1_sleep_dream_2.md

## In Linear A

- [WI-SA-SA-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-SA-SA-NE/index.md>) (Wiššān): Sleepy (personal name); rival √y-š-š 'aged'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šittu OB, SB [CAD š 3 140], [AHw 1252]; also šuttu OA, OB on [CAD š3 405], [AHw 1292-1293] (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: si-tum, šit-t-um (HALOT 1601, 1602) (apud Fronzaroli); si-tum /šittum/ (VE 1131; Krebernik 1983, 40); /w-s₁-n/: cf. names si-na-du, si-na-ḫu, si-na-ma-lik; /Sinat/: cf. name si-na-du; si-dè, si-tum /Sitt/ (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 359) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: šinta [DM 462] (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: yšn [Aist 137-138], šnt [ibid.] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: yšn (ḳal) (HALOT 447), šēnā (HALOT 1601) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: šēntā, šēnā, šintā; šǝnā (šäntā) (n.) [Ja 1564], [DJPA 560a apud CAL] (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: šentā 'sleep' [Brock 789]
- Aramaic: SAMAL šnh [HJ 1175] (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: suff. šint- 'sleep' (BDB 1096)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: wsn 'to be asleep in a deep sleep; to be in one's first sleep; to doze' [BK 1 1538], sinat-, wasnat-, wasanat- 'desire to sleep, drowsiness; deep sleep; first sleep', wasan- 'deep sleep' [ibid. 1539] [BK 1539]
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic wsn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 147) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB s1nt [SD 163; Sabaweb lemma 1894] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: šǝnēt [JM 432] (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: šínoh [LS 419]; míšin [LS 252] (gloss withheld)
- Harsusi: šenēt [JH 124] (gloss withheld)
- Jibbali: s̃ónút [JJ 293] (gloss withheld)
- Geez: ʔaswana [LGz. 520]

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