# \*sapVr- 'to count, recount, inscribe'

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

- Author's gloss: to count, recount; to write; book, scribe
- Record: https://github.com/plasma-ai/kaphtor/blob/50525edd50131a50e59ec82bf5132da0fa89efc9/wiki/semitic-roots/s/2701_to_count_recount_inscribe.md

## In Linear A

- [\*516](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/*516/index.md>) (šipru): account, register (šipru), a transaction logogram
- [SI-\*516](<https://linear-a.ai/lexicon/SI-*516/index.md>) (si-SIPRU): the account/record (phonetic complement + logogram)

## Notes

Akkadian šapāru 'to send, write' (CAD Š/1 440) has š against the s of the other branches.

## Reflexes: Northwest Semitic

- Ugaritic: spr (DULAT 755); spr (DULAT 756) (gloss withheld)
- Phoenician: spr (Krahmalkov 347); msprm (Krahmalkov 299–300) (gloss withheld)
- Hebrew: sāpar (HALOT 765); spr (DNWSI 799) (gloss withheld)
- Syrian Aramaic: sefrā; safrūtā (HALOT 766, 768) (gloss withheld)
- Aramaic: siprā; spr, sfirā (HALOT 766, 767; DNWSI 799; DNWSI 798) (gloss withheld)
- Mandaic Aramaic: aspar, sipra (HALOT 766; MD 335)
- Judaic Aramaic: siprā (HALOT 767; DJPA 386b apud CAL) (gloss withheld)
- Biblical Aramaic: sᵉfar (HALOT 768); sāpraʾ (T 232) (gloss withheld)
- Punic: N.Pu. mspr (T 189); sprm, in spry (Krahmalkov 348) (gloss withheld)
- Canaanite: EG SYLL ṯu=pi₂=-r /*s̀ōpira/ (Hoch 364) (gloss withheld)

## Reflexes: Arabic

- Arabic: safara 'to write, travel' (BK 1, 1097)
- Pre-Islamic North Arabian: Safaitic sfr (Al-Jallad–Jaworska 120); sfrt, sfrn; Dadanitic sfr; Thamudic B sfr (Al-Jallad 2026, 130) (gloss withheld)

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