# \*midr- ~ \*ramad- 'dust, dirt, ashes'

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

- Author's gloss: earth, soil, dust; ashes
- SED semet 3004
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/2470_dust_dirt_ashes.md

## In Linear A

- [MI-DA-RU-RA](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/MI-DA-RU-RA/index.md>) (midrara): dust, ashes, dry earth (second accusative after √k-s-y 'cover')

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Hebrew: pB mädär 'ordure (material used for vessels)' Ja 735
- Syrian Aramaic: medr- Br 373 (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: midrā (Kogan 2011, 189) (gloss withheld)
- Emar: ma-da-ri /madaru/ (Pentiuc 2001, 117–118) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: ramād- 'cendre', madar- 'dry, sticky mud, without sand' BK 2 1078
- Modern Arabic: Leb rmǝd, Mec rumād, Malt ǝrmit (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: mdr (LGz. 330; Sabaweb lemma 4515) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Mehri: mdêr 'mud brick' Jahn 210
- Geez: mədr (LGz. 330) (gloss withheld)
- Tigre: mədər (LGz. 330) (gloss withheld)
- Amharic: mədər (LGz. 330) (gloss withheld)
- Gurage: mədər (LGz. 330) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: mədri (LGz. 330) (gloss withheld)
- Argobba: mədər (Leslau 1997:211, AAD 108 apud SEDonline 517) (gloss withheld)

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