Proto-Semitic root
*ʾVr-
‘day’ 1, ‘light’ 2, ‘sun’ 3, ‘fire, heat’ 4, ‘set fire to’ 5
di Mino’s gloss: light; fire, flame; day, sun
Record 1462 ↗ · SED semet 1550 · Basis: SED, meaning edited
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Kogan 2011, 196 sets ‘light’ (Akk. urru, Ug. ảr, ỉr, Heb. ʔōr) and ‘heat, flame’ (Ug. ủr, Arab. ʔirrat-, ʾuwār-, Tgr. ʾarwa, Soq. ʾérir) on one PS biconsonantal element; HALOT 25 derives ʔūr ‘fire’ from the root of ʔōr.
Reflexes15 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianurru 1 (CAD U/W 243; AHw 1433)ūru 2āriru 4 (CAD A/2 268)gloss withheld
- Eblaiticù-ru₁₂ /ʔurru/ 2 (VE 817, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 683 apud SEDonline 554)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic6
- Ugariticʾr 2ảr 2 (DULAT 91)ủr 4 (DULAT 92)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʾwr
- Phoenicianʾr 2 (Krahmalkov 70)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʔōr 1, 2 (HALOT 24–25)ʔwr qal, hif. 2 (HALOT 24)ʔūr 4 (HALOT 25)gloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicʔwrʔy 2gloss withheld
- Punicʾr 2ʾry 4 (T 29)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root ʾwr
- Amoriteʾwr 2: ʾūrum, jāʾwir, mēʾirum, mīʾirum (Gelb AS 21, 14)yaʾwīr 2, ʾūru 2 (Buck 2019, 324)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicʔirrat- 4 (BK 1 22), ʔrr [-u-] 5 ibid., ʔry II [-i-] 5 ibid. 27, ʔawwara 5 (BK I 68)ʾuwār- 4 (Kogan 2011, 196)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian6
- East EthiopicSel Wol ayr, Zw arīt 3gloss withheld
- Geezʔer, ʔir 2, 3 (LGz. 36)gloss withheld
- GurageMuh Msq Go aret, Cha eyat 3 LGur 118gloss withheld
- Harariīr 3gloss withheld
- Tigreʔarwa 4 (LH 359)ʾarwa 4 (Kogan 2011, 196)gloss withheld
- Soqotriʾérir 5 (Kogan 2011, 196)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.