Proto-Semitic root
*(ʾV-)g(w)ar- (or *hugar-)/*garh-
‘field, arable land’
di Mino’s gloss: field, arable land
Record 1807 ↗ · SED semet 1942 · Basis: SED
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
OLA80 §63.5 sets Libyco-Berber ižžar < *iggar ‘field’ and Agaw agār ‘country’ beside the Semitic forms, and doubts a loan from Sumerian a-gār ‘water meadow’ or from Indo-European *agr-. Rendsburg takes Mycenaean a-ko-ro, Greek ἀγρός, Latin ager and ugr for one IE–Semitic lexeme from the spread of agriculture (2026, 205).
Reflexes7 languages
East Semitic1
- Akkadianugāru OAkk. on (AHw 1402)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic1
- Ugariticʔugr (Kogan 2015, ch. 5 §3.2.3 no. 1)gloss withheld
Arabic1
- Arabicǯawwār- ‘ploughman’ (BK 1, 353)
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian4
- Tigregärhat (LGz. 202)gloss withheld
- Geezgarha, garāht, garh (LGz. 202)gloss withheld
- TigrinyaTna. gǝrat, pl. gǝrahǝw (LGz. 202)gloss withheld
- Guragetäggärä (OLA80 §63.5)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.