Proto-Semitic root
*ʾu/imm-
‘mother’
di Mino’s gloss: mother; grandmother
Record 1839 ↗ · SED semet 1979 · Basis: SED
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Krebernik 1983, 41 and n. 147 reads VE 1160 MUNUS as ʾaₓ(NI)-ma-tum /ʾam(a)tum/ ‘woman’, Akk. amtu (2783), where Pettinato read ì-ma-tum.
Reflexes26 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianumm- OB [AHw 1416]gloss withheld
- Eblaitic/ʔummum/ [Fronz EL 151]ù-mu-mu /ʔummum/ (VE 1044; Krebernik 1983, 37)i-ma-tum (OLA80 §30.2)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic10
- Ugariticum, pl. umhthm [DULAT 67]gloss withheld
- Phoenicianʾm (T 23)gloss withheld
- Hebrewʔēm (HALOT 61), pl. suff. ʔimmōhēnū, ʔimmōhāmgloss withheld
- Judaic Aramaicʔīmmā ‘mother’ [Ja 50]
- Amorite/ʔi/ummum/ (Gelb AS 21, 14)ʾimma (Buck 2019, 323)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicʔem(m)-, pl. ʔemhāt-, ʔemh- 'motherabbess'ʔemhāy- ‘maternal’ (adj.) [Brock 23]
- Aramaicʾm (DNWSI 66)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root umm
- Punicʾm ‘mother’Anderson–Moser 2024 root umm
- Mandaic Aramaicʿma (LGz. 22; MD 352)
- Emarim-mi /ʾimmu/ (Pentiuc 2001, 89)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicʔumm- ‘mother’, pl. ʔummāt-, ʔummahāt- ("some hold that the first form is used of animals, the second of people") [BK 1 50](dual) ʔummān- ‘the father and mother’ [BK 1 50]
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic ʾm (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 44)Dadanitic ʾm (Al-Jallad 2026, 6)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSAB ʔmm [SD 5; Sabaweb lemma 2986]gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian11
- Mehriḥām, indef. (rare) ʔɛ̄m, hāmē, pl. ḥāmēt [JM 5]gloss withheld
- Soqotriʔaʔamɛ́ˀɛmhɛ-, ɛ́mhɛ- (LS 62; SLOnline 3104)gloss withheld
- Tigreʔǝm, pl. ʔǝmmat [LH 353]gloss withheld
- Geezʔǝmm [LGz 22]gloss withheld
- GurageMAS GOG ǝmm, ENN END äm, SOD ǝmmit, GYE ämiyät [LGur 42](all) ǝmmiyägloss withheld
- Jibbaliʔumʾɛ́m, pl. ɛ́míti (Rubin 2014 656)gloss withheld
- Harariumma [LHar 25]gloss withheld
- Argobbaəm (LGz. 22)
- Gafatəmʷit (LGz. 22)
- Tigrinyaʾəm in ʾəmbet (LGz. 22)gloss withheld
- Amharicəmmamma, əmməyye, əmmäbet (LGz. 22)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.