# \*ʾVr- 'day' 1, 'light' 2, 'sun' 3, 'fire, heat' 4, 'set fire to' 5

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

- Author's gloss: light; fire, flame; day, sun
- SED semet 1550
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/%CA%BE/1462_day_1_light_2_sun_3_fire_heat_4_set_fire_to_5.md

## In Linear A

- [AU-RE-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/AU-RE-TE/index.md>) (ʾawrēt): luminous one (feminine)
- [U-RE-WI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/U-RE-WI/index.md>) (ʾūr-lēwī): light of the Levite (compound PN)

## 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.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: urru 1 (CAD U/W 243; AHw 1433); ūru 2; āriru 4 (CAD A/2 268) (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: ù-ru₁₂ /ʔurru/ 2 (VE 817, Kogan–Krebernik 2021b: 683 apud SEDonline 554) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: ʾr 2; ảr 2 (DULAT 91); ủr 4 (DULAT 92) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾwr]
- Phoenician: ʾr 2 (Krahmalkov 70) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ʔōr 1, 2 (HALOT 24–25); ʔwr qal, hif. 2 (HALOT 24); ʔūr 4 (HALOT 25) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ʔwrʔy 2 (gloss withheld)
- Punic: ʾr 2; ʾry 4 (T 29) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root ʾwr]
- Amorite: ʾwr 2: ʾūrum, jāʾwir, mēʾirum, mīʾirum (Gelb AS 21, 14); yaʾwīr 2, ʾūru 2 (Buck 2019, 324) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ʔirrat- 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)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- East Ethiopic: Sel Wol ayr, Zw arīt 3 (gloss withheld)
- Geez: ʔer, ʔir 2, 3 (LGz. 36) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: Muh Msq Go aret, Cha eyat 3 LGur 118 (gloss withheld)
- Harari: īr 3 (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: ʔarwa 4 (LH 359); ʾarwa 4 (Kogan 2011, 196) (gloss withheld)
- Soqotri: ʾérir 5 (Kogan 2011, 196) (gloss withheld)

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