# \*šam(a)n- 'fat (also oil)'

A Proto-Semitic root the Linear A Lexicon's readings rest on, also written \*sam(a)n-.

- Author's gloss: fat, oil; fatness
- SED semet 2205
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/%C5%A1/2014_fat_also_oil.md

## In Linear A

- [\*188-\*308](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*188-*308/index.md>) (buṭnu šamni): terebinth oil, the Pistacia product \*188 with \*308 'pressed oil'
- [\*308](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*308/index.md>) (šamnu): pressed oil, oil derivative—commodity modifier indicating oil extraction from base commodity
- [A-SA-MU-NE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/A-SA-MU-NE/index.md>) (ʾAšmūn): Eshmun (healing deity)
- [OLE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/OLE/index.md>): šamnu 'oil, olive oil'

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: šamnu (NA also šamanu) OB on [CAD š1 321], [AHw 1157] (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: sa-ma-nu (OLA80 §29.5; VE 883; Krebernik 1983, 34); sa-ma-nu da-bù /Samn/; /Sammun/: name sa-mu-nu; /Summun/: names zu-mu-na, zu-mu-na-nu; /Sammanūt, Sammunūt/: names sa-ma-nu-du, sa-mu-nu-du, ša-mu-nu-du (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 254) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Mandaic Aramaic: šamina, šumna [DM 443, 455] (gloss withheld)
- Ugaritic: šmn [Aist 309]; šmn /Šamnu/ DN, oil deified, l šmn (KTU 1.164:9; Pardee 2002, 75, 283), later Eshmun (DULAT 817) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: šmn [T 323] (gloss withheld)
- Modern Aramaic: MAL šomna [Berg 91] MMND šamīna [M MND 502, 521] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: šämän (HALOT 1567, 1568). (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: šǝman (šumnā) [Ja 1536, 1597]; šwmn [DJPA 541a apud CAL] (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: šumnā 'fat, fatness' [Brock 786]
- Aramaic: OFF PLM šmn [HJ 1163] (gloss withheld)
- Punic: šmn (Krahmalkov 470) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: samn- 'fat' [BK 1 1143].
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic smn (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 122) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Jibbali: šɛ̃n [JJ 262] (gloss withheld)

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