# \*muhr- 'foal'

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

- Author's gloss: foal, colt, calf; young animal
- SED semet 2475
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/2243_foal.md

## In Linear A

- [\*23M](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*23M/index.md>) (mūru): young bull, head of cattle (live livestock logogram; MU-onset abbreviation of \*mūru)
- [MU-RU](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MU-RU/index.md>) (mūru): young bull, young animal

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: mūru (fem. mūrtu) OAkk. on [CAD m2 229] (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: /muhr/: names mu-lu, mu-rí, mu-ra (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 32) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Syrian Aramaic: muhrā 'foal of a horse' [Brock. 376], [PS 2028].
- Modern Aramaic: Tlk. muhra; Tur. muhro, mōharṯo (SED II 202)
- Amorite: muhr: mu-ru-ᵈda-gan (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 32) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: muhr- 'foal; in general, young (of any animal)', fem. muhr-at- 'filly; female young (of any animal)' [BK 2 1161], [LA V 185].
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic mhrt (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 95) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab. mhrt [SD 84; Sabaweb lemma 2250] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Geez: mhr, ʔmhr 'camel foal (?)' [Littmann 86]
- Tigrinya: mǝhir 'young female mule not yet broken in' [Bass. 71].

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