# \*mḫṣ 'beat'

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

- Author's gloss: to strike, beat, smite; wound, kill; fight
- SED semet 3155
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/m/2620_beat.md

## In Linear A

- [TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/TU-MI-TI-ZA-SE/index.md>) (tumtiṣa-se): for the fighting (terminative -SE), a levy of 45; rival tmtt 'team, crew'

## Notes

HALOT 571 takes Hebrew mḥq 'to shatter' (Ju 5:26, beside mḥṣ) as the Aramaic form of mḥṣ.

## Reflexes: East Semitic

- Akkadian: maḫāṣu; mahāṣu (gloss withheld)
- Eblaitic: ma-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)

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: mḫṣ (DULAT 534) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: mḥṣ; maḥaṣ (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: mḥʾ (HALOT 571)
- Aramaic: OAram. mḥˀ (DNWSI 610) (gloss withheld)
- Judaic Aramaic: JBA mḥy (DJBA 655 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: mḥā (LSyr. 380, SL 738 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: mha (MD 258) (gloss withheld)
- Modern Aramaic: Tur. mḥy (JL 173 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Epigraphic South Arabian

- Epigraphic South Arabian: Sab mḫḍ (Biella 271-2; Sabaweb lemmas 4525, 4527) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Ethiopic and Modern South Arabian

- Tigre: maḫaṣa (HALOT 571)
- Geez: maḥaṣa (CDG 337 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Tigrinya: mäḥaṣä (TAD 353 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Argobba: mähaṭä (Leslau 1997: 211 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Harari: mäḥaṭä (EDH 105 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- East Ethiopic: Zwy. māṭä (EDG 437 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)
- Gafat: maṣä (Leslau 1956:218 apud SEDonline 111) (gloss withheld)

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