Proto-Semitic root

daym(-ūm)- ~ damdam- ~ *ʾadam(-at)-

‘all (inhabited, arable) land, earth, area’

di Mino’s gloss: earth, land, soil; district

Record 1845 ↗ · SED semet 1986 · Basis: SED

In Linear A1 entry

DA-DU-MA-TAdadmatusettlement(s), district (heading of a grain list)CandidateSemitic13D

Reflexes9 languages

East Semitic1

Akkadian(OB on) dadmū pl. tant. [CAD d 18][AHw 149]cf. dimatugloss withheld

Northwest Semitic6

Ugariticdmt (DULAT 272)gloss withheld
Punicʔdmt [Estañol 60]gloss withheld
Hebrewʔădāmā (HALOT 15)also ʔādām, ʕēn ʔ. (HALOT 14, 15) (in: Zech 9:1, Jr 32:20, etc.)gloss withheld
Judaic Aramaicʔadamtā ‘earth’ [Ja 17]
Syrian Aramaicʔadamtā 'earthduststarch' [Brock 6]
Amoriteʾadm: ad-mu-a (Ur III), ⁽ᵈ⁾ad-mu= (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 9)dadm: da-ad-mu-um, da-ad-mi-im (Sanmartín GlOS 1, 141)gloss withheld

Arabic1

Arabicdaymūm-, daymūmat- ‘vast waterless desert’ [BK 1 729]ʔadīm- 'earththe whole expanse of sky and earth that the eye can take in‘ [BK 1 19], ʔīdāmat- ’hard ground, without stones or pebblessurface of the earth' [ibid. 20]BK 20

Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian1

Geezʔadyām [LGz 146]gloss withheld

† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.

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