# \*nʕm 'to be good'

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

- Author's gloss: to be good, pleasant, gracious; favour
- SED semet 3146
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/n/2611_to_be_good.md

## In Linear A

- [DU-NE-MI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/DU-NE-MI/index.md>) (ḏū-naʿmi): He of Grace (personal name; ḏū 'he of' + naʿm 'grace, pleasantness')
- [TA-NA-MA-JE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NA-MA-JE/index.md>) (Tanʿamay): personal name, 'She is gracious'
- [TA-NU-MU-TI](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TA-NU-MU-TI/index.md>) (ta-nʿum-u-tī): may you (f.) be gracious, favourable

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Eblaitic: /naʿmūt/: names na-mu-ud, na-mu-du (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 70); /-naʿim/: name ì-lum-na-im (Krebernik 1988, 45) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: nʕm (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 40) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: nʕm; nʿm (HALOT 704, 705); mnʿm (T 187); nʿmt (T 217) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: naʿem 'pleasant' [Anderson–Moser 2024 root nʿm]
- Punic: nʿm; N.Pu. nʿmm (T 216); N.Pu. nʿmt (T 217); Neo-Punic nema (Krahmalkov 330) (gloss withheld) [Anderson–Moser 2024 root nʿm]
- Judaic Aramaic: nᵉʿīmā (HALOT 704)
- Amorite: nʿm: naʿimum, naʿmum, niʿimatum, niʿima (Gelb AS 21, 26); naʿmu, niʿmu, nuʿmu, niʿimu (Buck 2019, 329–330) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic nʿm; nʿmt; nʿm (D) (Al-Jallad 2026, 98) (gloss withheld)
- Arabic: nʕm 'be good, pleasant' (Lane 3035)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab nʿm (Biella 308); Sab nʿm (Biella 308; Sabaweb lemma 1538); Sab nʿm (SD 90; Sabaweb lemma 3090) (gloss withheld)

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