# \*daym(-ūm)- ~ \*damdam- ~ \*ʾadam(-at)- 'all (inhabited, arable) land, earth, area'

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

- Author's gloss: earth, land, soil; district
- SED semet 1986
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/add28e9473c07931be80fd0b364181739fc5519a/wiki/semitic-roots/d/1845_all_inhabited_arable_land_earth_area.md

## In Linear A

- [DA-DU-MA-TA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DA-DU-MA-TA/index.md>) (dadmatu): settlement(s), district (heading of a grain list); rival 'beloved land'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: (OB on) dadmū pl. tant. [CAD d 18]; [AHw 149]; cf. dimatu (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: dmt (DULAT 272) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: ʔdmt [Estañol 60] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: ʔădāmā (HALOT 15); also ʔādām, ʕēn ʔ. (HALOT 14, 15) (in: Zech 9:1, Jr 32:20, etc.) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: ʔadamtā 'earth' [Ja 17]
- Syrian Aramaic: ʔadamtā 'earth; dust; starch' [Brock 6]
- Amorite: ʾadm: 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)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: daymūm-, daymūmat- 'vast waterless desert' [BK 1 729]; ʔadīm- 'earth; the whole expanse of sky and earth that the eye can take in' [BK 1 19], ʔīdāmat- 'hard ground, without stones or pebbles; surface of the earth' [ibid. 20] [BK 20]

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: ʔadyām [LGz 146] (gloss withheld)

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