Proto-Semitic root
*sapVr-
‘to count, recount, inscribe’
di Mino’s gloss: to count, recount; to write; book, scribe
Record 2701 ↗ · Basis: kaphtor
In Linear A2 entries
Notes
Akkadian šapāru ‘to send, write’ (CAD Š/1 440) has š against the s of the other branches.
Reflexes12 languages
Northwest Semitic10
- Ugariticspr (DULAT 755)spr (DULAT 756)gloss withheld
- Phoenicianspr (Krahmalkov 347)msprm (Krahmalkov 299–300)gloss withheld
- Hebrewsāpar (HALOT 765)spr (DNWSI 799)gloss withheld
- Syrian Aramaicsefrāsafrūtā (HALOT 766, 768)gloss withheld
- Aramaicsiprāspr, sfirā (HALOT 766, 767; DNWSI 799; DNWSI 798)gloss withheld
- Mandaic Aramaicaspar, sipra (HALOT 766; MD 335)
- Judaic Aramaicsiprā (HALOT 767; DJPA 386b apud CAL)gloss withheld
- Biblical Aramaicsᵉfar (HALOT 768)sāpraʾ (T 232)gloss withheld
- PunicN.Pu. mspr (T 189)sprm, in spry (Krahmalkov 348)gloss withheld
- CanaaniteEG SYLL ṯu=pi₂=-r /*s̀ōpira/ (Hoch 364)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Arabicsafara ‘to write, travel’ (BK 1, 1097)
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic sfr (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 120)sfrt, sfrnDadanitic sfrThamudic B sfr (Al-Jallad 2026, 130)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.