# \*riʾm- 'aurochs'

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

- Author's gloss: aurochs, wild bull; wild cow
- SED semet 2508
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/r/2269_aurochs.md

## In Linear A

- [WI-RA-RE-MI-TE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/WI-RA-RE-MI-TE/index.md>) (Wild-rēmti): Calf of the Wild Cow (personal name, compound; wild 'young one' + rēmtu 'wild cow')

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: rīmu (rēmu, riʔmu) OAkk. on [CAD r 359], [AHw. 986] (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: rʔum [DULAT 712] (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: rǝʔēm (HALOT 1163), pB. [Ja. 1437] (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: rǝʔēmā, rēmā [Ja. 1437], [Levy WT II 396], rʔm [DJPA 510a apud CAL]; also rēmānā [Ja. 1475], [Levy WT II 421], [Levy WTM IV 407], rymn [DJPA 523b apud CAL]. (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: raymā 'wild ox, unicorn' [Brock. 727], [PS 3897].
- Aramaic: Off. rʔm [HJ 1042]. Sam. rʔm [Tal 807]. (gloss withheld)
- Modern Aramaic: NSyr. rémâ 'a wild ox' (M 293)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: riʔm- 'gazelle, especially the one whose coat is white' [BK 1 796], [Fr. II 104], [Lane 998], [LA XII 224]
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic rm (Al-Jallad 2026, 118) (gloss withheld)

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