Proto-Semitic root
*mḫṣ
‘beat’
di Mino’s gloss: to strike, beat, smite; wound, kill; fight
Record 2620 ↗ · SED semet 3155 · Basis: SED
In Linear A1 entry
Notes
HALOT 571 takes Hebrew mḥq ‘to shatter’ (Ju 5:26, beside mḥṣ) as the Aramaic form of mḥṣ.
Reflexes18 languages
East Semitic2
- Akkadianmaḫāṣumahāṣugloss withheld
- Eblaiticma-ḫa-zi /maḫāḍi/ (st. cstr., in ma-ḫa-zi i-da) (VE 531a; Krebernik 1983, 20)ma-ḫa-zi i-da-2 /maḫṣi yidayn/ (= Sum. šu-šu-ra) (VE 531; Bonechi 2008, 14)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic8
- Ugariticmḫṣ (DULAT 534)gloss withheld
- Hebrewmḥṣmaḥaṣgloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicmḥʾ (HALOT 571)
- AramaicOAram. mḥˀ (DNWSI 610)gloss withheld
- Judaic AramaicJBA mḥy (DJBA 655 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicmḥā (LSyr. 380, SL 738 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Mandaic Aramaicmha (MD 258)gloss withheld
- Modern AramaicTur. mḥy (JL 173 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab mḫḍ (Biella 271-2; Sabaweb lemmas 4525, 4527)gloss withheld
Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian7
- Tigremaḫaṣa (HALOT 571)
- Geezmaḥaṣa (CDG 337 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Tigrinyamäḥaṣä (TAD 353 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Argobbamähaṭä (Leslau 1997: 211 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Hararimäḥaṭä (EDH 105 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- East EthiopicZwy. māṭä (EDG 437 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
- Gafatmaṣä (Leslau 1956:218 apud SEDonline 111)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.